UK Sport: Employment Agencies

Mr. Hunt
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) UK Sport and (b) Sport England spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last five years; and which companies provided these services.

Mr. Sutcliffe
UK Sport has provided the information in Table A for spend on recruitment consultants. The recruitment companies used were:

Morgan Hunt

Michael Page

Page Personnel

Ashdown Group

Odgers Ray and Berndtson

Anna Gillet

Covent Garden Bureau.

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|Financial Year|Cost of recruitment agencies (£)|
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|2003-04       |9,324.62                        |
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|2004-05       |60,825.28                       |
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|2005-06       |67,655.99                       |
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|2006-07       |5,567.50                        |
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|2007-08       |54,302.87                       |
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|Total         |197,676.26                      |
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Sport England has provided the information in Table B, which includes spend on recruitment consultants and external recruitment advertising as they are unable to disaggregate the various costs. The recruitment and advertising companies used were:

Dynamic Finance plc

John Wild Associates

Capita Business Services Ltd.

Excel Recruitment Ltd.

Fairstaff Agency Ltd.

Graduate Prospects

Hays Construction and Property

Hays Office Support

Headway Recruitment

jobswithballs.com

Michael Page UK Ltd.

Precise Selection Ltd.

Price Guy Cholerton Ltd.

Robert Half Ltd.

Spherion Ltd.

The Sports Recruitment Company Ltd.

BSS Recruitment

Greater Manchester Newspapers Ltd.

Guardian Media Group plc

Hays Human Resources

LCL Media

Lighthouse Adcomms LLP

Nigel Lynn Associates Ltd.

Odgers Ray and Berndston

Pearson Press Ltd.

Reed Employment

Spring Personnel Ltd.

SRG Select (trading name for sportweb.com.ltd)

Badenoch and Clark

Chase Anderson Ltd.

COI Communications

DP Media

Interim Performers

Page Personnel

Rockpools People and Performance

TMG CRB The Media Group.

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|Financial Year|Cost of recruitment agencies (£)|
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|2003-04       |96,604                          |
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|2004-05       |256,756                         |
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|2005-06       |411,034                         |
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|2006-07       |529,888                         |
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|2007-08       |465,123                         |
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|Total         |1,759,405                       |
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