{"value":{"id":638073,"askingMemberId":1438,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2016-11-16T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2016-11-18T00:00:00","uin":"53486","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 3.21 of the National Audit Office report, Delivering the defence estate, published on 15 November 2016, what steps he is taking to address the difficulties faced by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation in recruiting specialists needed to manage the defence estate and deliver the Footprint Strategy.","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":1544,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2016-11-21T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) is undertaking several initiatives to improve the recruitment of specialists. These include:</p><p>A Strategic Resourcing Plan to tackle resourcing issues across DIO, including identifying how to address skills gaps.</p><p>Developing a DIO Employer Value Proposition called &quot;Why DIO?&quot; to find out what really attracts and retains people within DIO.</p><p>A &quot;Quick guide to DIO&quot; to raise awareness of DIO as an organisation to work for.</p><p>Increasing use of social media to attract candidates to the most difficult to recruit areas.</p><p>Implementing Apprenticeship and Graduate schemes against the top 10 'difficult to recruit' areas and core capabilities.</p><p>A recruitment team to focus solely on these job families.</p><p>Streamlining the recruitment process and undertaking allowance reviews and salary comparisons.</p><p>Procuring specialist skill requirements through the supply chain.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Defence Infrastructure Organisation: Recruitment","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/638073","method":"GET"}]}