The Department for International Development (DFID) provides employment statistics to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Prior to 2006, employment numbers were available only on an annual basis and from then on were collected quarterly.
Details of the available published DFID staffing statistics for permanent civil service employees, and temporary workers, in DFID from 2005 are contained in the following table.
Month/year Permanent civil service employees Temporary workers (i.e. fixed-term civil service employees on contracts of 12 months or less) Total March 2005 1880 0 1880 March 2006 1800 0 1800 June 2006 1780 0 1780 September 2006 1740 0 1740 December 2006 1750 10 1760 March 2007 1710 10 1720 June 2007 1720 10 1730 September 2007 1670 0 1670 December 2007 1660 0 1660 March 2008 1610 0 1610 Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 10
The definition of temporary workers follows the ONS definition which states that employees with fixed term contracts of 12 months or less should be regarded as temporary employees.
In response to the question about the numbers of our non-civil service posts, DFID employs staff appointed in country (SAIC) who are recruited locally to work in our network of over 50 offices overseas on local terms and conditions of service. The details of our SAIC staff are shown in the following table:
Month/year Total March 2005 989 March 2006 933 June 2006 899 September 2006 881 December 2006 882 March 2007 865 June 2007 837 September 2007 846 December 2007 854 March 2008 834
Prior to October 2007 there were no central records of agency workers within DFID so we are unable to provide historical numbers. Details of the centrally managed agency workers from October 2007 to March 2008 are shown in the following table.
Number October 26 November 27 December 34 January 38 February 49 March 54