Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much his Department has spent on agency workers in each of the last five years.
The FCO has a Temporary Agency worker supply contract with Hays Specialist Recruitment. Records of the FCO's expenditure with them, began in April 2013 and are:
| Financial Year | (£m) |
| FY 13-14 | 6.2 |
| FY 14-15 | 4.3 |
| FY 15-16 | 4.7 |
| FY 16-17 (to end of September 2016) | 2.6 |