Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which five companies were used most often to provide temporary workers for her Department in the last financial year; and how much in agency fees was paid to each of them.

The list below details the five companies used most often to provide temporary workers for DFID in financial year 2013/4:

1. Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd

2. Hudson Global Resources Ltd

3. Anderson Knight Ltd

4. Allegis Group Ltd

5. Michael Page International

It is not possible to disaggregate agency fees from the total payments made to these companies for the services of temporary staff.