The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has paid recruitment agencies the amounts in the following table in each year since 1997:
£ 1997-98 278,618.91 1998-99 482,465.39 1999-2000 456,230.03 2000-01 386,498.94 2001-02 409,743.71 2002-03 512,869.85 2003-04 451,750.43 2004-05 496,585.32 2005-06 1,147,515.76 2006-07 11,069,662.09 1 To 19 January 2007.
These sums are inclusive of the full salary costs of the temporary staff.