HC Deb 05 March 2004 vol 418 c1191W
Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the cost of recruitment of civil servants for the Department was in each financial year since 1996–97, broken down by(a) delegated or contracted out recruitment procedures and (b) recruitment procedures carried out by the Department. [158194]

Mr. Caborn

The cost of recruitment of civil servants to the department for Culture, Media and Sport for the financial years 2002–03 and 2003–04 to date are shown in the table. Equivalent information for earlier years is no longer available.

£
Recruitment 2002–03 20032002–04
Contracted out 41,700 33,153
In-house 72,331 30,616
Total 114,031 63,769