Departmental Temporary Employment

Pete Wishart
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what average hourly rate his Department paid to employment agencies for agency staff in each year since 1999, broken down by employment agency.

Kevin Brennan
The Department was established in June 2007. The average hourly rate paid by my Department to employment agencies for agency staff in the financial year 2007-08 is set out in the following table.

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|£                                               |
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|Grade                                           |Adecco|Hays|Reed|
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|AA1                                             |8.65|—|—|
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|AO1                                             |10.64|—|—|
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|EA1                                             |—|8.48|9.86|
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|EO                                              |14.42|15.49|12.13|
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|Personal Secretary                              |15.64|—|—|
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|Senior Personal Secretary                       |16.38|—|—|
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|HEO                                             |18.82|20.45|14.82|
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|SEO                                             |—|24.66|18.10|
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|1 Grades AA and AO have now been replaced by EA.|
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