3.25 If the Department needs to re-recruit skills it loses, it will reduce the overall savings it aims to achieve, as recruitment is costly. In 2009, the average cost of hiring a civil servant in the Department was £2,700.16
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16 Comptroller and Auditor General, Recruiting Civil Servants Efficiently, Session 2008-09, HC 134, National Audit Office, February 2009.