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Mr. Bercow
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many agency workers have been employed by the Department in each of the last two years; and at what cost to public funds. [115204]
Peter Hain
During the last two financial years five posts in my Department have had to be covered by agency workers at some stage or other. The number of individual agency workers who were employed in each year, and their cost, was:
| Agency workers employed | ||
| Financial year | Number | Cost £ |
| 2001–02 | 11 | 35,000 |
| 2002–03 | 10 | 56,600 |