The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has paid the following amounts to recruitment agencies in each year since 1997:
For temporary staff For permanent staff 1997-98 276,618.91 — 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 1,147,515.64 25,525.51 2006-07 1,671,993.81 222,865.61
The amounts paid to agencies for temporary staff are inclusive of their service charges and the salary costs of the staff supplied.
The significant increase in the level of fees paid to agencies in the last two years is largely attributed to the need to bring in additional resources quickly to staff up the Department’s team working on the Olympics 2012 programme following London’s successful bid. Now that permanent staff have been recruited or transferred into the team, agencies fees are expected to fall back to levels paid previously in the years prior to 2005-06.