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169936

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of the amount his Department has spent on public procurement which has reached small and medium-sized firms through its supply chains in each region.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Information on government suppliers within a specific constituency or region is not held centrally.</p><p>Figures provided by major suppliers indicate that for 2012-13 SMEs benefitted by £4bn through the supply chain. Figures for 2013-14 will be published in due course.</p><p>A new version of Contracts Finder will be available in due course. This will allow users to search by region and by postcode.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 16/12/2014 17:53:40 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

169937

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Christmas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on decorations, hospitality or refreshments for Christmas activities in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Refreshments for Christmas celebrations were funded by ministers and/or officials - and were not at taxpayers' expense. The Cabinet Office has paid £80.50 for decorations and a central Christmas tree in the main building of 70 Whitehall. Cabinet Office also contributed towards the cost of the Christmas tree for the building it shares with HM Treasury. In addition, my office purchased at personal expense a discounted Christmas tree from Argos.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 16/12/2014 17:54:54 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

170016

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) his Department, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	218512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by My Rt Hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office on 15 December to Question 217821.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 16/12/2014 12:16:08 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

168822

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	217769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Information on recorded expenditure by the Law Officers’ Departments consultants, temporary staff and contingent labour in each of the last five financial years is contained in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Attorney General’s Office</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Temporary Staff Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Contingent services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£1,182</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£4,258</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£4,000</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£9,745</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£42,479</p></td><td><p>£54,185</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Treasury Solicitor’s Department</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Temporary Staff Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Contingent services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£9,095,385</p></td><td><p>£296,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£1,000</p></td><td><p>£5,248,180</p></td><td><p>£251,466</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£29,050</p></td><td><p>£3,585,399</p></td><td><p>£635,299</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£9,182</p></td><td><p>£2,880,789</p></td><td><p>£774,108</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£244,531</p></td><td><p>£6,664,899</p></td><td><p>£827,670</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Temporary Staff Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Contingent services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£4,022</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£15,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£5,481</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£9,998</p></td><td><p>£4,311</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£31,530</p></td><td><p>£20,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£27,284</p></td><td><p>£27,527</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Serious Fraud Office</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Temporary Staff /Contingent Services Expenditure <sup>(2)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£48,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£3,926,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£31,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£2,672,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£856,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£2,296,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£1,557,000 <sup>(1)</sup></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£3,693,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£2,199,000</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>£6,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Crown Prosecution Service</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Consultancy Expenditure <sup>(3)</sup></p></td><td><p>Temporary Staff Expenditure</p></td><td><p>Contingent services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£960</p></td><td><p>£189,624</p></td><td><p>£273,935</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£9,793</p></td><td><p>£66,866</p></td><td><p>£2,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£13,347</p></td><td><p>£257,057</p></td><td><p>£23,355</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£684,314</p></td><td><p>£1,616,284</p></td><td><p>£392,968</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>£1,881,834</p></td><td><p>£2,464,073</p></td><td><p>£3,293,676</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em><sup>(1) </sup></em><em>During the preparation of an answer to an earlier PQ (206676), the SFO identified that this figure is incorrectly stated in their accounts and should be £1,568k. The original figure is given here for consistency.</em></p><p><em><sup>(2) </sup></em><em>The totals shown in this table are for contingent labour (excluding consultants). This total includes all other temporary staffing (including agency staff, interim managers and specialist contractors).</em></p><p><em><sup>(3) </sup></em><em>CPS Expenditure for 2009/10 relates to expenditure with consultancy firms for professional services and may include payments for services not covered by the Office of Government Commerce’s Consultancy Value Programme definition. </em></p><p> </p><p>Records are not held centrally of the number of individuals such employed during these years, the length of their contracts or their equivalent civil service salary band. To verify these details would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 16/12/2014 15:40:09 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

168830

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	217770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>This Government's tough spending controls have helped ensure substantial reductions in central Government spend on consultancy and contingent labour. Our 2013/14 spend was an astonishing 57% lower than spend in 2009/10 in the last year of the previous Government.</p><p>Since the 2010 General Election, all use of contractors, consultants and temporary interims in my department has to be approved centrally. This was not the case under previous administrations.</p><p>Information on temporary staff and contingent labour expenditure for 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2010-to-2011</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2011-to-2012</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2012-to-2013</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-annual-report-and-accounts-2013-to-2014</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 16/12/2014 17:52:12 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

168914

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	217774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Education’s consultant and contingent labour information is collected and published on a monthly basis and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://data.gov.uk/dataset/workforce-management-information-department-for-education" target="_blank">http://data.gov.uk/dataset/workforce-management-information-department-for-education</a></p><p>The Department does not hold this information on an annual basis, and compiling this information in the form requested would not be possible in the time available. The link provides management information on staff numbers and payroll costs in the Department, its agencies, Non-Ministerial Departments and Executive Non-Departmental Public Body for the period 31 March 2011 to 27 November 2014. It includes workforce numbers, covering both payroll and non-payroll (contingent labour, including consultants) staff, split between full-time equivalents (FTE) and headcount. Payroll staff numbers are mapped to standard Civil Service grades.</p><p> </p><p>We do not hold information on the length of individual contracts of consultants and contingent labour in a readily available form and it would not be possible in the time available to complete an analysis of the data.</p><p>Temporary employees are those that have a fixed term contract of 12 months or less or are employed on a casual basis. The total number of temporary staff employed in the Department in each of last five years is shown in Table 1 with the grade band breakdown in Table 2.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Temporary staff employed in the Department</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>12 months to</p></td><td><p>Temporary staff (headcount)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2010</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2011</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2012</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2013</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>89</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Table 2: Temporary staff by grade band</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>12 months to </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grade Band</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Temporary staff</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>November 2010</p></td><td><p>EA</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EA AO</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GRADE 7</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>39</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>November 2011</p></td><td><p>EA AO</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="4"><p>November 2012</p></td><td><p>EA AO</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GRADE 7</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>November 2013</p></td><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3"><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td> </td><td><p><strong>89</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 16/12/2014 17:22:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

168934

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much her Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	217776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>All staff employed in Core Defra who are not on the payroll are considered to be contingent labour. For reporting purposes, they are separated into consultants and temporary staff. The table below therefore only distinguishes between these two categories.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Consultancy</strong></p></td><td><p>21.6</p></td><td><p>3.4</p></td><td><p>5.2</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>9.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Temporary Staff</strong></p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td><td><p>12.4</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td><td><p>6.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We could only obtain detailed information on the numbers of people employed in these ways in each year, and the equivalent civil service grades, at disproportionate cost as this data is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p><br></p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 16/12/2014 17:05:05 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

168935

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	217777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) departmental spend in these categories in the last five years is set out in the table below.</p><p>2010/2011: Consultancy: £19.2m Contingent Labour/temporary staff: £5.2m<br>2011/2012: Consultancy: £12.0m Contingent Labour/temporary staff: £4.3m<br>2012/2013: Consultancy: £3.5m Contingent Labour/temporary staff: £5.8m<br>2013/2014: Consultancy: £1.5m Contingent Labour/temporary staff: £6.2m<br>2014/2015: Consultancy: £1.2m Contingent Labour/temporary staff: £3.4m</p><p>Since March 2010, the provision of contingent labour/temporary staff in the FCO has been provided by Hays Specialist Recruitment as part of a managed service for the provision of temporary labour. Under the current government; a Cabinet Office freeze on management consultancy has led to all governmment departments driving down consultancy costs. This reflected in the steady reduction in consultancy spend from 2011 onwards; our spend on consultancy in 2013/14 was 92% lower than in 2010/2011.</p><p>It is not possible to specify over this period how many people have been employed; their contract lengths and their equivalent civil service salary band without incurring disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 16/12/2014 18:06:32 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

168977

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	217778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>For each of the last five financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14, the overall amount of money spent by the Department of Health (DH) on consultants and contingent labour/ temporary agency staff is included in the tables below. Figures are from the Department of Health Annual report and Accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Table 1: Total Core DH Consultancy spend by financial year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p>Cash (£ million)</p></td><td><p>Resource (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>*2013-14</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Core Department</p></td><td><p>£108.3</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£9.797</p></td><td><p>£2.920</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£5.472</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£4.985</p></td><td><p>£0.588</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Connecting for Health</p></td><td><p>£6.3</p><p> </p></td><td><p>£4.975</p></td><td><p>£11.997</p></td><td><p>£12.927</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Table 2: Total Core DH Contingent Labour/Temporary/Agency worker spend by financial year</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p>Resource (£ million)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>2013-14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Core Department</p></td><td><p>£88.942</p></td><td><p>£89.614</p></td><td><p>£36.886</p></td><td><p>£44.049</p></td><td><p>£39.991</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Connecting for Health</p></td><td><p>£129.415</p></td><td><p>£62.160</p></td><td><p>£34.078</p></td><td><p>£12.927</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*Changes to core DH consultancy spend reporting from 2013-14 will now be based on the newly stated DH resource accruals position- which is £588,000. This is no longer comparable or on a like-for like basis against all former reported purchase orders in line with Crown Commercial Services (CCS) definitions in previous years 2009-10 to 2012-13 i.e the figures for the previous years in the table. We will however, continue to capture and report on CCS definitional spend (currently £4.985 million) as part of the DH family Workforce Management Information notification required to Cabinet Office and this is the like for like comparison figures for the previous years in the table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Notes:</em></p><p> </p><p>1. Figures for Contingent labour/Temporary Agency values are on a resource basis and are consistent with published accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2. 2013-14 Connecting for Health spend is no longer reported as part of core DH reporting.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not directly employ consultants or contingent labour/temporary agency staff. It contracts for the delivery of consultancy and contingent labour services. Information on consultants and temporary staff numbers in the Department is however, published in the monthly “Information on the workforce of the Department of Health (DH) and its agencies” and is available on the .Gov website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department‘s Business Management System may hold data on consultancy, contingent labour, and agency staff costs where it is stored centrally for a specific budget approval period. To work out contract length details and equivalent civil service pay rates for all years requested would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/12/2014 17:31:37 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

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registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, how much her Department has spent on (a) consultants, (b) temporary staff and (c) contingent labour in each of the last five years; how many people have been so employed; what the length of contract of each such person was; and what equivalent civil service salary band each was on.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	217780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>DFID workforce management information, containings detail on consultant, temporary staff and contingent labour, is available on the government website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfid-workforce-management-information-public-body/" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfid-workforce-management-information-public-body/</a></p><p> </p><p>This includes information from 2010-11 up to and including August 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Providing further detail, including the information on individual contracts could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency New Forest West answering member printed Mr Desmond Swayne question first answered 16/12/2014 15:43:21 answering member 55 label Biography information for Sir Desmond Swayne
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell