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<p>The Civil Service-wide Recruitment Freeze was introduced in May 2010, which limits
new appointments to front-line and business critical roles only this usually means
specialist roles. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is reducing UK based headcount
by 10% in the current Spending Round.</p><p>Recruitment agencies are used to recruit
for positions that require specialist skills and expertise not available elsewhere
in the organisation. The number of FCO staff who were employed through employment
or recruitment agencies from 2010-11 onwards is:</p><p>2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14
2014/15</p><p>36 11 78 75 16</p><p><br>Recruitment in 2012/13 increased as a result
of a need to staff our recently established Corporate Services Centre in Milton Keynes.
From 2013/14 onwards the data includes directly recruited summer and graduate interns.</p><p>The
FCO also has a separate contract in place with Hays Specialist Recruitment for the
provision of temporary staff for essential frontline roles whilst internal recruitment
processes take place. The number of temporary staff who were employed through recruitment
agencies from 2010-11 onwards, on contracts of varying length, is:</p><p><br>2010/11
2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15</p><p>19 61 116 59 28</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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