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