Departments: Recruitment

Mr. Francois
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much her Department and its agencies paid to recruitment consultants in each year since 1997.

Angela E. Smith
The central part of Communities and Local Government and its predecessor Departments paid the following amounts to recruitment agencies in the specified years:

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|                     |Amount (£)|
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|January-April 2007   |34,519.80 |
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|January-December 2006|92,444.78 |
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|January-December 2005|123,600.08|
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|January-December 2004|155,135.14|
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|January-December 2003|93,604.62 |
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Information prior to January 2003 and in relation to the Department’s agencies is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.