Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which external recruitment agencies are used by his Department's non-departmental public bodies.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has five Non-Departmental Public Bodies: the British Council, Marshal Aid Commemoration Commission, Wilton Park, Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the Great Britain China Centre. The external recruitment agencies used by them, or by the FCO on their behalf, are: Russell Reynolds Associates, Hays Specialist Recruitment, Pro Group, Rencai, DGH Recruitment Limited, La Fosse Associates, Interquest Group UK Limited, Whitehall Resources Limited, Sentinel IT LLP, The Audit & Risk Recruitment Company, Michael Page UK Ltd, Stop Gap Group Ltd, Elevate Recruitment, Morgan Law Partners LLP, Perrett Laver, Minerva, Neutral Vendor (Comensura), Women on Boards, NEDonBoard, Nurole Ltd, Accountancy Recruitment Worthing, Reed, Checkmate Resourcing, GCS Recruitment, Gatenby Sanderson, Badenoch and Clark, Mark Sattin, Huntress, Prospect-Us, Pulse, Business in the Community, Mentoring Foundation, The Women's Organisation, Board Ready, Business Disability Forum, Gay Business Association, Association of Disabled Professionals, Egon Zehnder.