§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to his Department was of employing staff in(a) London and (b) the south east from employment agencies in each year since 1997. [56511]
§ Ms BlearsThe table shows the cost of employing agency staff in the Department. The figures are for the total spend for each financial year as we are unable to extract the London and south east spend from the total.
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£ Contract/agency staff Labour supply contract 2001–02 6,596,040.33 576,360.04 2000–01 5,524,667.11 640,851.49 1999–00 6,811,808.23 558,832.73 1998–99 6,198,276.97 430,882.97 1997–98 1,726,246.57 492,827.22