Temporary Staff (Hansard, 24 July 2002)

HC Deb 24 July 2002 vol 389 cc1374-5W 1374W

§ Sandra Gidley
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many employees under contract from temping
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agencies worked in his Department; and how much was spent on temporary staff (a) in total and (b) as a percentage of the total staffing budget in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [72634]

Mr. Murphy
My Department came into existence in July 1999.
Information is not readily available for the whole period. However my Department currently has 4 agency staff out of a total of 48. Expenditure on agency staff amounted to £86,000 in 2000–01; £35,000 in 2001–02; and £17,000 in the first quarter of 2002–03.
The figure for 2000–01 equates to 4.8 per cent. of the paybill for that year; the spend in 2001–02 equates to 1.4 per cent. of the paybill.