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Departments: Recruitment

Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much his Department paid in fees to recruitment agencies for (a) temporary and (b) permanent staff in each year since 1997. [151679]

Margaret Hodge: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has paid the following amounts to recruitment agencies in each year since 1997:


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£
For temporary staff For permanent staff

1997-98

276,618.91

1998-99

482,465.39

1999-2000

456,230.03

2000-01

386,498.94

2001-02

409,743.71

2002-03

512,869.85

2003-04

451,750.43

2004-05

496,585.32

2005-06

1,147,515.64

25,525.51

2006-07

1,671,993.81

222,865.61


The amounts paid to agencies for temporary staff are inclusive of their service charges and the salary costs of the staff supplied.

The significant increase in the level of fees paid to agencies in the last two years is largely attributed to the need to bring in additional resources quickly to staff up the Department’s team working on the Olympics 2012 programme following London’s successful bid. Now that permanent staff have been recruited or transferred into the team, agencies fees are expected to fall back to levels paid previously in the years prior to 2005-06.

Departments: Redundancy Pay

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent by his Department on redundancy payments in the last 12 months. [153272]

Margaret Hodge: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has spent £100,475 in the last 12 months on redundancy payments.

Departments: Taxis

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent by his Department on taxis in the last 12 months. [153271]

James Purnell: All official travel is undertaken in accordance with the rules contained in the Department’s staff handbook, and consistent with the Civil Service Management Code and the Ministerial Code. For the financial year 2006-07 £33,907.44 is the recorded spend on taxi fares. It represents expenditure on taxis provided by the Department’s contract agent, black cabs and taxis in London and elsewhere.


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