Departmental Temporary Employment

Grant Shapps
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland which companies his Department used to provide temporary staff in 2008-09; how many temporary staff were employed in that year; and what the monetary value of contracts with each such company in that year was.

Ann McKechin
Details of the companies used by the Scotland Office to provide temporary staff in 2008-09 are provided in the following table;

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|Company                   |Number of staff|Cost (£) |
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|Kelly’s                   |1              |4,445.57 |
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|Eclipse                   |4              |36,914.63|
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|Michael Page International|1              |18,971.55|
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