[holding answer 23 March 2012]: To answer the question as tabled would incur disproportionate cost.The Department of Energy and Climate Change has engaged staff on a temporary basis through two of the listed organisations between 1 April 2010 and 31 December 2011. The expenditure incurred with these companies is shown in the following table. It would incur disproportionate cost to establish how many individuals were employed through each agency and whether the person was in post for more than one year or engaged on a full time basis. To do so would involve retrieving all invoices and supporting evidence for payments to these organisations and making inquiries with the local business area that had procured the services of each individual as to the basis and duration of their employment.<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><TR><TD>£000</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD>April 2010 to March 2011</TD><TD>April 2011 to December 2011</TD></TR><TR><TD>Reed Personnel</TD><TD>176</TD><TD>39</TD></TR><TR><TD>Capita Resourcing T/A Veredus Executive Resourcing</TD><TD>21</TD><TD>9</TD></TR></Table>The Committee on Climate Change and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority report no spend with the listed organisations between April 2010 and December 2011.The Civil Nuclear Police Authority spent £3,000 on interim posts with Capita Resourcing Ltd in 2010-11. The information requested with respect to this expenditure cannot be collated within the overall cost limit.