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1675883

registered interest
date	06/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	5534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2023 answer text <p>The department’s expenditure, including consultancy fees, is published each year in the Annual Report and Accounts and is available on GOV.UK. The most recent Annual Report for the 2021/22 financial year, is accessible at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022</a>.</p><p>The department does not split out external recruitment consultant from other consultant spend.</p><p>External recruitment agencies and search firms are an important resource which support the Civil Service's ability to recruit and to find talented people, in the right places, with the right capabilities to deliver for the people of the United Kingdom. The Civil Service has developed a number of commercial frameworks which provide transparency, high quality services and value for money.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/12/2023 17:41:27 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1582986

registered interest
date	01/02/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	137943
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member for Edinburgh West to the answer I gave on 15 November 2022 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-11-01/76168" target="_blank">76168</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/02/2023 14:46:38 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1538369

registered interest
date	01/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on external recruitment consultants in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	76168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 15/11/2022 17:26:48 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1019453

registered interest
date	03/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pots of funding there are in his Department for training, upskilling and incentivising recruitment; and what the value is of those funds.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	198338
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The department has allocated a central budget for this financial year of £2.28 million to support the training and upskilling of Department for Education (DfE) staff (£521,000) and apprenticeship programmes (£1.759 million) for DfE staff.</p><p>The department’s central recruitment budget for this financial year is £602,000 to cover Government Recruitment Services for all grades, attraction spend, senior civil service (SCS) Individual Leadership Assessments and other SCS recruitment costs.</p><p>The central allocations above support departmental priorities. DfE teams hold local budgets to support team related priorities.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 11/12/2018 16:16:02 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

882509

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of job roles advertised within his Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017 excluded the box under the Ban the Box initiative.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	135571
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The department is fully compliant with the Ban the Box initiative. No roles advertised in 2016 or 2017 required applicants to declare details of previous convictions.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2018 16:56:11 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

882542

registered interest
date	13/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's implementation plan is for banning the box on job applications.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	135604
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The department is already compliant with the Ban the Box initiative and, as such, there is no requirement for an implementation plan.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2018 16:41:40 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

862246

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which external recruitment agencies are used by his Department's non-departmental public bodies.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	132665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Institute for Apprentices have used Gatenby Sanderson and the Office for the Children’s Commissioner have used Hays in this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 21/03/2018 16:29:05 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton previous answer version 48314 answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

691862

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department operates a ban the box employment policy in respect of ex-offender job applicants with unspent convictions; and how many employees of her Department have unspent convictions.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	64469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education’s recruitment policies are fully compliant with the Ban the Box initiative. The Department does not hold information about how many employees have unspent convictions.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/02/2017 17:58:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

678002

registered interest
date	24/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times the selection exemptions of the Civil Service Commissioner's recruitment principles were used by her Department in each year since 2010; and at what grades each such appointment was made.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	61420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Service Commissioners’ recruitment principles do not include selection exemptions.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 31/01/2017 17:32:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman