HC Deb 24 February 1997 vol 291 c88W
Mr. Hall

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security 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. [16187]

Mr. Burt

The information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.