AQW 19343/22-27
Miss Michelle McIlveen
Democratic Unionist Party
Strangford
Tabled Date: 04/12/2024
Answered On Date: 14/01/2025
Priority Written: No
Question:
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the number of agency staff employed in the Northern Ireland Civil Service in each of the last five years; and (ii) how much additionally this has cost.
Answer:
The table below outlines the number of Agency Workers on assignment in the NICS, as at end March each financial year: Financial Year ending March | Number of agency workers | 2020 | 2,571 | 2021 | 2,521 | 2022 | 2,930 | 2023 | 2,975 | 2024 | 4,015 |
Source: Clerical Trackers held by NICSHR Temporary Resourcing Solutions Branch Any department-specific, local agency worker agreements will not be reflected. Information based on current reporting principals. ii) Information on the annual cost of hiring recruitment agency workers across the NICS is not held centrally by Department of Finance (DoF). This information may be found through published Departmental Annual Report and Accounts or by contacting individual Departments. The table below provides DoF expenditure in relation to temporary workers, contract staff and recruitment agency workers: Year | Cost (£'000) 1 2 | 2019/20 | £6,875 | 2020/21 | £6,715 | 2021/22 | £7,155 | 2022/23 | £6,543 | 2023/24 | £6,017 |
1 Costs include recruitment agency workers in NISRA. 2 Costs may include recruitment agency workers, temporary workers and fixed term contract staff costs across DoF.
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