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FOI - Temporary agency spend [Nov 2024]

Key information

Request reference number: MGLA231024-3530

Date of response:

Summary of request

Request:

  1. Please provide a report using the below table, showing all temporary agency spend (£) for your organisation, broken down for the last 3 financial years: 
  2. Please provide a report using the below table, showing permanent agency spend (£) for your organisation, broken down for the last 3 financial years:
  3. Please provide a report using the below table, showing all temporary agency spend (£) at your organisation, broken down for the last 3 years covering the following services:
  • Legal & Governance Services
  • Finance & Corporate Services. 
  1. Please provide a report using the below table, showing all permanent agency spend (£) at your organisation, broken down for the last 3 years covering the following services:
  • Legal & Governance Services
  • Finance & Corporate Services.
  1. Please provide a breakdown of all ‘off framework’ agency spend (£) at your organisation for the last 3 years covering the following services:
  • Legal & Governance Services
  • Finance & Corporate Services.
  1. Do you use any of the following model(s) to manage temporary agency recruitment (for Legal & Governance Services; Finance & Corporate Services) at this moment in time?
  • Master Vendor/Managed Service
  • Neutral Vendor
  • Preferred Supplier List 

What model is used and when does this agreement expire?

  1. Do you use any of the following model(s) to manage permanent agency recruitment (for Legal & Governance Services; Finance & Corporate Services) at this moment in time?
  • Master Vendor/Managed Service
  • Neutral Vendor
  • Preferred Supplier List 

What model is used and when does this agreement expire?

  1. Please confirm the number of staff members for Legal & Governance Services and Finance & Corporate Services departments and the split between permanent members of staff, temporary staff (fixed-term contracts) and agency staff in the below table for this moment in time:  
  2. Who are the top 5 agencies for agency spend (£) across Legal & Governance Services and what is the breakdown of their spend over the 23-24 financial year
  3. Who are the top 5 agencies for agency spend (£) across Finance & Corporate Services and what is the breakdown of their spend over the 23-24 financial year?
  4. What frameworks, if applicable, do you use for temporary and permanent agency recruitment.

 

Response:
I can confirm that the GLA holds some of this information in scope of your request as follows:
For questions 1. and 2. Financial data is not categorised as temporary agency or permanent agency it is just recorded as GLA agency spend, these figures have been captured in question 1.
1. Please provide a report using the below table, showing all temporary agency spend (£) for your organisation, broken down for the last 3 financial years:

Financial Year  
2021/22 5,846,644.38
2022/23 5,555,215.22
2023/24 8,900,264.04

2. Please provide a report using the below table, showing permanent agency spend (£) for your organisation, broken down for the last 3 financial years:

Financial Year  
2021/22 N/A
2022/23 N/A
2023/24 N/A

 

3. Please provide a report using the below table, showing all temporary agency spend (£) at your organisation, broken down for the last 3 years covering the following services:
• Legal & Governance Services
• Finance & Corporate Services

Financial Year Legal & Governance Services Finance & Corporate Services
2021/22    
2022/23    
2023/24    

- We are unable to respond as the way in which the GLA is structured is not comparable to the two prescribed areas. By way of context, the GLA directorates are as follows:
Assembly Secretariat
Chief Officer
Chief Finance Officers Directorate
Communities and Skills
Good Growth
Housing and Land
Mayor's Office
Corporate Resources and Business Improvement
Strategy and Communication

 

4. Please provide a report using the below table, showing all permanent agency spend (£) at your organisation, broken down for the last 3 years covering the following services:
• Legal & Governance Services
• Finance & Corporate Services.

Financial Year Legal & Governance Services Finance & Corporate Services
2021/22 N/A N/A
2022/23 N/A N/A
2023/24 N/A N/A

- Same as question 3.

5. Please provide a breakdown of all ‘off framework’ agency spend (£) at your organisation for the last 3 years covering the following services:
• Legal & Governance Services
• Finance & Corporate Services.

Financial Year Legal & Governance Services Finance & Corporate Services
2021/22 N/A N/A
2022/23 N/A N/A
2023/24 N/A N/A

- Same as question 3.

6. Do you use any of the following model(s) to manage temporary agency recruitment (for Legal & Governance Services; Finance & Corporate Services) at this moment in time?
- Master Vendor/Managed Service - Reed

What model is used and when does this agreement expire?

7. Do you use any of the following model(s) to manage permanent agency recruitment (for Legal & Governance Services; Finance & Corporate Services) at this moment in time?
- Preferred Supplier List – CSC Framework

What model is used and when does this agreement expire?

8. Please confirm the number of staff members for Legal & Governance Services and Finance & Corporate Services departments and the split between permanent members of staff, temporary staff (fixed-term contracts) and agency staff in the below table for this moment in time:

  Legal & Governance Services Finance and Corporate Services
Number of permanent staff N/A N/A
Number of temporary staff N/A N/A
Number of agency staff N/A N/A

- Same as question 3. However, in addition, each prescribed area is made up of two separate work disciplines and we do not hold the data to define these individually and we do not record the information in this manner.

9. Who are the top 5 agencies for agency spend (£) across Legal & Governance Services and what is the breakdown of their spend over the 23-24 financial year
- Same as question 3.

10. Who are the top 5 agencies for agency spend (£) across Finance & Corporate Services and what is the breakdown of their spend over the 23-24 financial year?
- Same as question 3.

11. What frameworks, if applicable, do you use for temporary and permanent agency recruitment.
- CCS Frameworks and Reed Master Framework

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