§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what use his Department and its executive agencies have made of executive search agencies or employment companies in filling vacancies within his Department or executive agencies administered by his Department during the financial years 1994–95 and 1995–96; what agencies were employed; what was the12W cost in each case; how many staff were recruited in each case; and what was the total cost in each financial year of these contracts. [31406]
§ Mr. HowardThe following table gives information about the use of executive search or employment agencies in 1994–95 and 1995–96 for centrally managed recruitment schemes.
Supplier 1994–95 Number of staff recruited 1995–96 Number of staff recruited RAS * 49 * 97 Coopers and Lybrand * 2 * 5 GKRS * 2 * 2 Korn Ferry — — * — St. James's Management Recruitment — — * 1 Saxton Bampfylde — — * 1 PJR — — * — Bakers — — * 4 Love Pirbhai Prichard — — * 1 Jones Resourcing — — * 1 Total — 53 — 112 Information is not readily available about the use of employment agencies whether recruitment was conducted locally.
For reasons of commercial confidentiality, it is not our practice to disclose the size of the contracts awarded to individual agencies. However, the combined value of these contracts was £350,326 excluding value added tax in 1994–95 and £611,309 excluding value added tax in 1995–96.
§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in what circumstances his Department or its executive agencies uses an executive search on employment agency to recruit staff in preference to using personnel staff within his own Department or its executive agencies. [31519]
§ Mr. HowardExecutive search or employment agencies are used in making appointments to the Home Office and its executive agencies where it is thought that they will be able to supplement usefully the field of applicants.