questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on external recruitment consultants in the (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022-23 financial year.
answerText: The information requested is not currently held centrally by the Department. Although examples will exist for specific roles, the Department does not, in general, make use of external recruitment consultants to fill fulltime roles.
heading: Ministry of Defence: Recruitment