Question follow-through · 19129
Cabinet Office: Employment Agencies
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Department has spent on recruitment agencies in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much each Department has spent on recruitment agencies in each of the last five years.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The information is not centrally held centrally. Each department is responsible for its own recruitment expenditure, which includes any agency spend.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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