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Written question asked by Lord Harper (Conservative) on Tuesday, 17 October 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 19 October 2006. It was answered by Joan Ryan (Labour) on Tuesday, 7 November 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.

Government Social Research Service

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of the Government Social Research Service in his Department in each of the last five years; how many projects have been completed by the service in that period; and how many people are employed in the service in his Department.
Answer

Government Social Research Service researchers are employed across government departments and in the devolved administrations. Staff are employed by the Home Office rather than the GSR service and GSR members are employed in multi-disciplinary analytic teams across the Department. Therefore it is not possible to separately identify the projects undertaken by the GSR service in the Home Office or their associated costs.Records of the number of GSR members employed by the Home Office are not available for all the years requested. However the number of GSR members at the end of March 2004 and 2005 is given in the following table.

Members of the Government Social Research Service employed by the Home Office
Number of GSR members
2004 291
2005 223

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
451 c1370W; 95850
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Home Office Government Social Research Service
Link
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