Culture Media and Sport written question – answered at on 4 November 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much (a) UK Sport and (b) Sport England spent on recruitment consultants in each of the last five years; and which companies provided these services.
UK Sport has provided the information in Table A for spend on recruitment consultants. The recruitment companies used were:
Morgan Hunt
Page Personnel
Ashdown Group
Odgers Ray and Berndtson
Anna Gillet
Covent Garden Bureau.
Table A | |
Financial Year | Cost of recruitment agencies (£) |
2003-04 | 9,324.62 |
2004-05 | 60,825.28 |
2005-06 | 67,655.99 |
2006-07 | 5,567.50 |
2007-08 | 54,302.87 |
Total | 197,676.26 |
Sport England has provided the information in Table B, which includes spend on recruitment consultants and external recruitment advertising as they are unable to disaggregate the various costs. The recruitment and advertising companies used were:
Dynamic Finance plc
John Wild Associates
Capita Business Services Ltd.
Excel Recruitment Ltd.
Fairstaff Agency Ltd.
Hays Construction and Property
Hays Office Support
Headway Recruitment jobswithballs.com
Michael Page UK Ltd.
Precise Selection Ltd.
Price Guy Cholerton Ltd.
Robert Half Ltd.
Spherion Ltd.
The Sports Recruitment Company Ltd.
BSS Recruitment
Greater Manchester Newspapers Ltd.
Hays Human Resources
LCL Media
Lighthouse Adcomms LLP
Nigel Lynn Associates Ltd.
Odgers Ray and Berndston
Pearson Press Ltd.
Reed Employment
Spring Personnel Ltd.
SRG Select (trading name for sportweb.com.ltd)
Badenoch and Clark
Chase Anderson Ltd.
COI Communications
DP Media
Interim Performers
Page Personnel
Rockpools People and Performance
Table B | |
Financial Year | Cost of recruitment agencies (£) |
2003-04 | 96,604 |
2004-05 | 256,756 |
2005-06 | 411,034 |
2006-07 | 529,888 |
2007-08 | 465,123 |
Total | 1,759,405 |
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