HC Deb 02 March 1976 vol 906 c550W
Mr. Ridley

asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will state, over a convenient recent period of time, the cost to the Exchequer of agency staff working on behalf of Her Majesty's Government throughout the public service.

Mr. Charles R. Morris

Identifiable provision made in the 1975–76 Estimates, including Summer and Winter Supplementary Estimates, for the use of agency staff and Post Office telephone operators amounts to £8,134,000.