NOMS expenditure on agency and temporary staff is shown in the following table. Owing to the way data is recorded on accounting systems it is not possible to show a split between agency staff and temporary staff. Within NOMS centre and HMPS staff on short-term employment contracts are not included as their costs are included in overall salary account codes. For Probation—NPS—both agency staff and temporary staff are within the figures shown in the table. It would not be possible to split these figures without asking for work to be carried out at each business unit within the NOMS agency, which would incur disproportionate costs.
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 NOMS 2,159,550 3,542,483 5,428,550 5,932,227 NPS 12,025,000 19,764,000 14,565,000 15,476,000 HMPS 45,883,000 30,999,000 25,028,000 21,461.000 Total 60,067,550 54,305,483 45,021,550 42,869,227