To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which recruitment agencies (a) her Department and (b) its agencies have used in the last three years; and how much was paid to each of these recruitment agencies in each year. (230943)

Communities and Local Government spent the following on temporary agency staff between 2005 and 2007:

Changes in the way financial data were collected in 2007-08 means that total spend on agency temps could be made available only at disproportionate cost. Names of companies and breakdown of spend per company could also be made available only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government which companies were used by her Department for providing temporary staff in each of the last five years; and what the value of contracts with each such company was in each of those years. (229081)

Communities and Local Government spent the following on temporary agency staff between 2003 and 2007:

Changes in the way financial data were collected in 2007-08 means that total spend on agency temps could be made available only at disproportionate cost. Names of companies and breakdown of spend per company could also be made available only at disproportionate cost.