27 September 2006

Recruitment in HM Treasury

Our recruitment procedures are in accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ code, which is based on fair and open competition and selection on merit. There are systems in place to ensure compliance and these systems are subject to internal checks. They were internally and externally audited in 2001 and will be audited again during 2006-07.

Treasury recruitment shown by category in 2005 is as follows¹ :

Range	Permanent appointment	Fixed-term appointment	Permanent transfer / reinstatement	Secondments in	Casual appointments (& exceptions)	Total
A	1	0	0	0	0	1
B	20	2	0	0	14	36
C	10	1	0	0	8	19
D	36	3	0	8	12	59
E	8	4	0	8	5	25
SCS	1	0	0	2	0	3
Total	76	10	0	18	39	143

¹ 122 staff loaned in from other Government Departments are excluded from this table.

The table below illustrates the number of occasions where permitted exceptions to fair and open competition and selection on merit have been used at each level (except for appointments of up to 12 months) by category:

Exception Category	Range A	Range B	Range C	Range D	Range E	SCS
Extensions of appointments of up to 12 months to a maximum of 24 months (with reasons)*	-	1	1	-	2	-
Short term appointments where highly specialised skills are required	-	-	-	-	-	-
Secondments	-	-	-	8	8	2
Extensions to secondments	-	-	-	-	-	-

* All extensions were permitted because a project or plan of work continued beyond the expected timescale