HC Deb 20 February 1997 vol 290 cc692-3W
Mr. Hall

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the private employment agencies used by his 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 his Department, (c) the total cost to his 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. [16190]

Mr. Hanley

The tables provide the information:

1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Agency Number of staff Cost £ Number of staff Cost £ Number of staff Cost£ Median Average length of contract
clayman 1 16,500 nil nil nil nil 16,400 1 year
Chorley nil nil 1 16,500 nil nil 16,400 1 month
Hodgkinson nil nil nil nil 1 8,191 16,382 5 months
Total 23 118,786 42 262,652 98 326,490

Overseas Development Administration—figures
1994–95 1995–96 1996–97
Agency Number of staff Cost £s Number of staff Cost £s Number of staff Cost £s Median Average length contract
Josephine
Sammons Nil Nil 9 23,921 63 155,168 Not available 5 weeks
Alfred Marks 30 62,666 10 73,296 8 27,445 Not available 5 weeks
Office Angels 10 36,045 6 38,671 5 44,691 Not available 7 weeks
PAX 12 85,039 11 93,321 9 56,769 Not available 5 weeks
ECCO 3 10,741 2 10,330 2 14,103 Not available 12 weeks
City Centre Bureau 1 21,757 1 18,155 1 8,645 Not available 8 weeks
Rogers and Gillespie Nil Nil Nil Nil 1 12,356 Not available 3 weeks
Total 56 216,248 39 257,694 89 319,177