FOI request (FOIR-701179778)

Recruitment agencies

Requested Mon 31 March 2025
Responded Tue 13 May 2025

I am requesting details on all spending with recruitment agencies, particularly spending that is not via your managed service provider.

1. What is the name of your agency recruitment provider aka an MSP (for example, Matrix, Comensura, and Reed)?

2. What was the total spend via that MSP provider from 01/01/2024 to 01/01/2025?

3. What was the spend on 'off contract' Agency Workers/Consultants/Interims that were not supplied by the MSP from 01/01/2024 to 01/01/2025?

4. Please provide (preferably on excel) the spend, suppliers name, department, and most importantly the job title of that 'off contract' worker spend (as stipulated in point 3).

5. What was the spend on recruitment agencies used for permanent recruitment? Please provide the agencies' name, spend and department?

For clarity, 'off contract' is spend on agency workers/consultants, whereby the supplier has invoiced the council directly and NOT via the MSP provider as outlined in point 1.

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Response

1. The vast majority of recruitment is done in-house.

2. Not applicable.

3. £1,165,516.04

4. Please see the attached document.

5. £20,509.03

Attachments

• FOIR-701179778_FOIR-701179778_1-FOI701179778_(4).xlsx