We do not have a central record of the numbers of staff employed under contract from agencies or the length of their contracts, and it would incur disproportionate cost to obtain this information. We do, however, have the costs for the past five financial years, which are:
Financial year £ 2001-02 1,933,841 2002-03 1,850,779 2003-04 2,357,123 2004-05 1,114,873 2005-06 2,299,111