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Dept for Work and Pensions

Answer

Mr. Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) senior management posts and (b) enforcement officer posts there have been in each of the regional Child Support Agency centres in each of the last seven years. [216764] Mr. Pond: The administration of the Child Support Agency is a matter for the Chief Executive, Mr. Doug Smith. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested. Letter from Doug Smith to Mr. Steve Webb, dated 4 April 2005: In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Chief Executive. You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) senior management posts and (b) enforcement officer posts there have been in each of the regional Child Support Agency centres in each of the last seven years. (a) For the purposes of this response I am regarding `senior management' as posts filled by members of civil service grades 6 and 7. I am unable to provide a geographical breakdown of senior management posts prior to 2003. From 2003 onwards, the number of senior management posts is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Regional centre March 2003 March 2004 January 2005 Midlands 6 5 + South Eastern 6 6 Ç 23 South Western 3 6 + Scotland and NE England 7 7 Ý 12 Wales and NW England 6 5 Eastern 1 1 1 Total 29 30 36 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. We have altered the way senior management figures are reported from January 2005 to reflect recent changes in our organisational structure. 5 of the original business units have been amalgamated to become the Southern and Northern Territories. (b) The number of specialist enforcement officer posts is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Regional centre 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Midlands 32 25 9 17 24 34 38 South Eastern 10 12 14 23 30 27 28 Scotland and NE England 22 46 38 45 46 48 46 South Western 37 16 18 24 30 41 43 Wales and NW England 14 13 14 36 33 36 33 Eastern 14 23 14 17 26 52 52 Total 130 136 107 162 189 237 240 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c1258W;432 c1255-6W; 216764

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Children Child Support Agency Maintenance Staff

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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