§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the jobs that have been lost to agencies in his Department in the past two years that have(a) been taken over by contractors and (b) disappeared. [18334]
§ Mr. Roger EvansA reduction of 2,532 posts has resulted from the award of contracts to private sector organisations for work that was previously done by civil servants.
A reduction of 993 posts has resulted from the efficiencies generated by civil servants whose bids to keep the work in-house were successful in a market test.