§ Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport 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. [158177)
§ Mr. McNultyThe Department for Transport was formed in May 2002. For open competitions for permanent positions below the Senior Civil Service (SCS), the Department uses two contracted out recruitment consultants. For open competitions for SCS positions, the Department uses specialist recruitment consultants taken from the Cabinet Office Central Call-Off Contract for recruitment into the SCS.
Following are details of the costs incurred by DfT (Central) for contracted out recruitment procedures:
(£) 2002–03 Senior Civil Service 309,237.08 Below SCS 211,626.55 2003–04 to date Senior Civil Service 781,378.64 Below SCS 582,084.33 The 'Below SCS' details do not include costs incurred by the Department's Executive Agencies as they have responsibility for their own recruitment for below SCS. We are unable to provide costs for recruitment procedures carried out by the Department itself as these costs could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.