Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much 10 Downing Street spent on (a) recruitment agency fees, (b) outplacement agency fees for displaced or redundant staff and (c) staff training in each of the last five years.

Since 2011, details of Cabinet Office expenditure over £25,000 is published at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-spend-data

The Cabinet Office does not hold a central record of outplacement agency fees, nor does it hold a central record of recruitment agency fees as it does not disaggregate these costs from general recruitment costs.