HC Deb 29 March 2004 vol 419 c1161W
Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the employment agencies which his Department and its predecessors have used to supply temporary staff in each financial year since 1996–97 to the most recent date for which figures are available. [163819]

Mr. McNulty

The Department for Transport was formed on 29 May 2002 following Machinery of Government changes. Its predecessors were DoT, DETR and DTLR. To produce information on these Departments would involve disproportionate cost. Hence the information provided here covers financial years 2002–03 and 2003–04 only.

The Department for Transport currently has a framework agreement with three employment agencies for supply of temporary administrative and secretarial staff below senior civil service. These are: Adecco, Brook Street and Reed Solutions.

In addition, the Department for Transport Finance Directorate has occasionally used temporary staff with specialist finance skills from the following agencies:

  • Badenoch and Clark
  • Goodman Masson
  • Grainger West
  • Hays Accountancy
  • Internal Audit People
  • Marks Sattin
  • Michael Page International
  • Parker Bridge.