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Departmental Temporary Employment

Volume 508: debated on Wednesday 7 April 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much his Department spent on (a) agency fees and (b) salaries of agency staff recruited to work at its headquarters (i) in each financial year since 2004-05 and (ii) in 2009-10 in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many agency staff his Department employed at each grade or equivalent at its headquarters in each year since 2004-05. (322840)

The Department has published its expenditure on Agency staff, staff substitution and Interim Management for the last three years in its annual reports. The breakdown of (a) agency fees and (b) salaries of agency staff could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

For 2006-07 spend (contained in Chapter 10, Table 4 —page 115):

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/2007-annual-report.pdf

For 2007-08 spend (contained in Chapter 10, Table 5 —page 141):

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/05.pdf

For 2008-09 spend (contained in Chapter 10, Table 13 —page 165):

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1281142.pdf

In the current financial year 2009-10 the indicative spend is £15.1 million as at the end of February 2010. However full out-turn figures will not be available until the early summer when they will be published in the Department’s annual report.

AA

AO

EO

HEO

SEO

G6

G7

SCS

HPTO

SPTO

N/A

Total

2004

4

38

9

11

6

1

6

1

1

1

38

116

2005

3

41

20

12

3

0

4

2

1

1

57

144

2006

8

47

30

32

14

1

14

6

1

0

73

226

2007

2

91

65

39

18

4

19

6

0

3

0

247

2008

2

59

107

46

25

19

28

12

2

5

0

305

2009

2

5

14

21

3

3

7

2

0

0

1

58

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many agency and temporary staff his Department employed in each of the last three years. (324331)

Over the last three years the Department has used several different suppliers to find temporary and agency staff and, the details of the many individual contracts involved can only be disaggregated at a disproportionate cost.

Details of the Department's staffing levels are published each year in its Annual Report and Resource Accounts, copies of which can be found on its external website:

http://www.communities.gov.uk

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 1 March 2010, Official Report, column 957W, on departmental temporary employment, what the total amount spent on employing temporary staff was in each of the last three years. (324332)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) today, PQ 322840.