HC Deb 19 February 1997 vol 290 cc561-2W
Mr. Hall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the private employment agencies used by her Department and its agencies in each of the last three years for which figures are available, indicating(a) the names of the agencies, (b) the numbers employed by the agencies in work for her Department, (c) the total cost to her Department of using employment agencies and the median cost paid to the agency per person recruited and (d) the average length of contract for persons recruited via such agencies. [16176]

Mr. Robin Squire

The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.