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Request 735518849
My request is as follows:
Customer & Local Services (CLS)
Subject: FOI Request – Recruitment Expenditure and Agency Staffing
Please provide the following information for the Department of Customer & Local Services (CLS) for each of the last four financial years (2021 22 to 2024 25):
1. The total annual expenditure on recruitment, broken down by:
- Agency staffing (including any seasonal or temporary staff)
- Advertising and marketing
- Relocation packages or bonuses
- External recruitment services or headhunting fees
- Any other recruitment related costs (please specify).
2. The number of agency workers engaged in each of those years, broken down by role type (e.g. role type).
3. Details of any master vendor or framework agreements for recruitment or agency staffing, including:
- Supplier name
- Start and end dates of the contract
- Total value of the contract (or approximate annual value).
Response
1 and 2.
The information requested is not held by CLS (now renamed as Employment, Social Security and Housing – ESSH) in a format for the purpose of Freedom of Information and the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 therefore applies.
3
When ESSH requires agency staff, it utilises the Government of Jersey (GoJ) corporate arrangements for the provision of agency staff. The local suppliers are 1st Recruitment and ASL Recruitment International. Each of their services commenced in 2017 and ends in 2025. A procurement exercise to re-tender these services is currently underway, therefore we are applying Article 33 of the Freedom of Information Jersey Law 2011.
There is no corporate contract for the provision of external recruitment services to GOJ for permanent or non-agency staff.
Public Interest test
Article 33 (b) is a prejudice-based exemption. That means that in order to engage this exemption there must be a likelihood that disclosure would cause prejudice to the interest that the exemption protects. In addition, this is a qualified exemption, and consideration must be given to the public interest in maintaining the exemption.
The Scheduled Public Authority (SPA) considers that providing information could prejudice the commercial interests of the Government of Jersey and / or third parties. There may be public interest in commercial information, however it was considered that this is outweighed by the potential for commercial and/or financial damage. The information requested is therefore withheld.
Articles applied
Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”
For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –
(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or
(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.
Article 33 - Commercial interests
Information is qualified exempt information if –
(a) it constitutes a trade secret; or
(b) its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information
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