FOI - Agency expenditure [Apr 2025]

Your request 

1. What is the name of your agency recruitment provider aka an MSP (example Matrix, Comensura, Reed)? 
2. What was the total spend via that MSP provider from 1/1/2024 to 1/1/2025? See Appendix.
3. What was the spend on ‘off contract’ Agency Workers/Consultants/Interims that were not supplied by the MSP from 1/1/2024 to 1/1/2025? 
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, agencies name, spend and department. Not applicable to the GLA.

*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.

Our response 

1. Our main contract for agency recruitment is with Reed.
2. See table
3. As our agency recruitment provider, GLA agency workers are recruited via Reed. Any additional recruitment that could be considered to be 'off-contract', using the definition supplied within this FOI as meaning 'not supplied by our main provider - Reed', is not information that the GLA's People Function record.
4. Not applicable.
5. Not applicable to the GLA.