§ Matthew TaylorTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost of recruitment of civil servants for the Department was in each financial year since 1996–97, broken down by(a) delegated or contracted out recruitment procedures and (b) recruitment procedures carried out by the Department. [158179]
§ Ruth KellyThe costs of recruiting staff fall largely to individual teams, and are charged to team budgets. Therefore information on the total cost of recruiting staff is not available centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.