Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how much her Department spent on agency workers in financial year 2015-16; and how much was paid to each agency used in that year.

The Department is in the process of finalising its Annual Report and Accounts – the information on total spend on agency worker will be available in public domain in July 2016.

Information on cash amounts paid to agencies over £500 is available through the Department’s transparency reporting at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-of-energy-climate-change&publication_type=transparency-data.