§ Mr. HallTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 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
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MAFF ADAS CSL VLA VMD PSD MHS IT equipment Number of items 37 Figures not available nil 22 nil nil 3 Cost of items (£) 35,000 — — Amount not available — — 759.00 Other equipment Number of items 7 — nil — nil nil nil Cost of items (£) 8,680.31 — — — — — — Items over £5,000 Ford Transit 5,500.00 — — — — — — the median cost paid to the agency per person recruited and (d) the average length of contract for persons recruited via such agencies. [16186]
§ Mr. BoswellFrom information held centrally, the answers to the questions are as follows:
1994 1995 1996 (a) Manpower1 Manpower1 Manpower1 Reed Employment Kelly Services Kelly Services Anne Pettengell Adecco (formerly Adecco (formerly CBR Group ECCO ECCO Country Bureau Employment) Employment) Hays Accountancy Reed Employment Reed Employment Anne Pettengell Hays Accountancy Hays Accountancy Pertemps Anne Pettengell Back-up Labstaff Pertemps Baxter Office Angels Baxter Office Angels Three Tees Office Angels Labstaff Labstaff Plum Personnel Accountancy Northern Personnel Recruitment (b) 362 689 995 (c) £530,801 £845,564 £2,414,0672 (d) 4 weeks 6 weeks 6 weeks3 Notes:
1 A number of recruitment agencies have been used over the last three years. Those listed are the ones with significant expenditure. Some local agencies are used by MAFF and agency offices to recruit a small number of staff at different locations, making it impossible to extract the required information without disproportionate cost.
2 It is not possible to show the median cost paid to each agency per person recruited as to do so would have involved disproportionate cost.
3 The overall average length of contract shows an average of averages. Requirements across MAFF and its agencies vary. It is therefore impossible to identify any particular period of contract as being representative of the needs of MAFF and its agencies as a whole.