To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills pursuant to the answer of 11 February 2009, Official Report, column 2097W, on departmental recruitment, what estimate he has made of the annual salary cost of (a) permanent, (b) temporary and (c) agency staff recruited by his Department in each year since 2005-06. (264293)

The Department was created on 28 June 2007. Since it was established, the estimated annual salary cost of new recruits and agency costs are as follows: