To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his Department's annual budget is for employing workers on a consultancy basis; and how much of this budget was used in each of the last five years for which records are available. (103021)

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) do not set annual budgets for employing workers on a consultancy basis at departmental level.

Expenditure for the last five years for employing workers on a consultancy basis is shown in the following table:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what percentage of staff employed in the top five grades of his Department have (a) a graduate qualification in IT and (b) previous employment as an IT specialist. (105938)

The answer is in the following table: