Speeches

Chris Leslie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Leslie on 2014-04-07.

To ask the Attorney General, which five companies were used most often to provide temporary workers for the Law Officers’ Departments in the last financial year; and how much in agency fees was paid to each of them.

Oliver Heald

The following table lists the top five companies used by the Treasury Solicitor’s Department (TSol), to provide temporary workers in 2013-14, by expenditure. TSol financial systems do not distinguish between the costs of temporary workers and the associated agency fee. TSol data also covers any expenditure incurred by HM Crown Prosecution service inspectorate and the Attorney General’s Office.

Firm

Amount spent (net of VAT)

Capita Resourcing Ltd (Staff)

£5,404,407

Kelly Services (UK) Ltd

£1,711,926

Experis (Elan Computing Ltd)

£634,916

Hudson

£347,834

Methods Consulting Ltd

£168,256

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has spent the following amounts with four companies during 2013/14 in relation to the provision of temporary workers. The expenditure includes the cost of temporary staff. It is not possible to separately identify the agency element of the payments.

Firm

Amount spent (including VAT)

Brook Street (UK) Limited

£99,423

Reed Employment Plc

£52,718

Badenoch and Clark

£31,739

Hays Accountancy Personnel

£19,832

This information has been produced from the CPS accounting system.

The following table lists the top five companies used by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to provide temporary workers in 2013-14, by expenditure. SFO financial systems do not distinguish between the costs of temporary workers and any associated agency fee.

Firm

Amount spent (including VAT)

Adecco

942,075

Alvarez and Marsal

609,499

Crowe Clarke Whitehill

590,264

Mazars LLP

567,627

FTI Consultancy

207,354