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This is an operational matter for NHS Lanarkshire.

This is a matter for the National Out of Hours Operations Group.

Limits on recruitment are not set centrally. Recruitment in individual business areas is determined by the need for particular skills to deliver required objectives and cost. The annual budgeting process, coupled with quarterly staffing returns requires business areas to assess business need and affordability of staffing requirements.

Tables have been supplied to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre which provide figures for temporary and seconded staff in Directorates and Agencies broken down by salary costs. Bib number 59780.

The Scottish Government does not use the services of external recruitment companies for vacancies at bands A-C bands - administrative through to management posts. These companies are however sometimes used at Senior Civil Service level.

In the last 5 years the Scottish Government has recruited six Senior Civil Servants to core SG Directorates and SG Agencies through the use of executive search by external recruitment companies. Of those one was recruited on a fixed term contract. The total value of their salaries on appointment was just over £608k.

One person at Senior Civil Service level has been engaged by a core Directorate through an employment agency under the Scottish Government’s Temporary and Interim Staff Services framework agreement. Costs are not being disclosed because this is regarded as personal information relating to an individual.

Tables have been supplied to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre which provide figures for Agency and temporary workers, salary costs broken down by Directorates and Agencies. Bib number 59782.

The Scottish Government does not use the services of external recruitment companies for vacancies at Bands A-C - administrative through to management posts. At Senior Civil Service level, since April 2017 an external recruitment agency has been engaged once to administer a recruitment competition and conduct executive search at a total cost of £31,109.

The Scottish Government does not use the services of external recruitment companies for vacancies at Bands A-C - administrative through to management posts. At Senior Civil Service level, one advert was placed on an external recruitment company site in September 2017 and one person was employed as a result.

We do not have a cost figure for this. Business areas manage recruitment and a central HR Resourcing Team facilitates this and provides advice. Staff time spent on individual campaigns will vary depending on a number of factors including number of posts, candidate interest and the grades of the vacancies.

Tables have been supplied to the Scottish Parliament Information Centre which provide figures for staff in Directorates and Agencies broken down by salary costs. Bib number 59781.

The Scottish Government's Housing and Social Justice Directorate leads on this work.