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Departmental Manpower

Answer

The number of people employed in each of the Department's business areas in the boroughs of Wyre, Blackpool and the City of Preston at 31 March of each year from 2005 to 2009 is shown in the following table:

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Borough of Wyre
Jobcentre Plus	76	65	59	51	40
Pensions, Disability and Carers Service¹	919	854	644	559	381
Child Support Agency²	0	3	1	2	0
Corporate and Shared Services	1,265	1,061	936	793	979
Total	2,260	1,983	1,640	1,405	1,400
Borough of Blackpool
Jobcentre Plus	444	470	346	376	435
Pensions, Disability and Carers Service¹	2,678	2,893	2,803	2,588	2,527
Child Support Agency²	2	0	144	168	0
Corporate and Shared Services	88	3	1	1	5
Total	3,212	3,366	3,294	3,133	2,967
City of Preston
Jobcentre Plus	448	523	584	556	527
Pensions, Disability and Carers Service¹	1,279	1,196	1,163	998	918
Child Support Agency²	2	2	1	1	0
Corporate and Shared Services	148	98	50	62	96
Total	1,877	1,819	1,798	1,617	1,541
¹ The Pensions Disability and Carers Service was formed in 2008 by the merger of The Pension Service and the Disability and Carers Service. For consistency the figures have been combined for earlier years also.
² The Child Support Agency transferred to the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission on 1 November 2008.
Note:
Figures shown are on the basis of headcount i.e. the number of individual staff employed.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

494 c678W; 279558

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Department for Work and Pensions Staff

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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