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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Ingram: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 11 March, Official Report, column 490, how many professional scientists and engineers of each category were employed at each grade in each of his Department's agencies in each year since 1991.[29900] Mr. Horam: It is not always possible to distinguish between scientific and engineering specialisms. Figures for 1991 are not available for the Medicines Control Agency. Whole-time equivalents _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Medicines control agency April 1991 April 1992 April 1993 April 1994 April 1995 April 1996 UG7(S) n/a 2.5 3.6 7 8 6 Senior Scientific n/a 2 2 3 4 3 Officer Higher Scientific n/a 3 4.6 22 23 23 Officer Scientific Officer n/a 7 13 18 17 17 Assistant Scientific n/a 0 3 5 8 8 Officer Total n/a 14.5 26.2 55 60 57 Medical devices agency (formed in September 1994) UG5 -- -- -- -- 2 1 UG6 -- -- -- -- 4 3 UG7 -- -- -- -- 18.5 14.6 Senior Professional and -- -- -- -- 41.5 34.8 Technical Officer Higher Professional and -- -- -- -- 23.5 14.4 Technical Officer Professional and -- -- -- -- 6 10 Technical Officer Technical Officer II -- -- -- -- 1 1 Total -- -- -- -- 96.5 78.8 NHS estates agency UG5 1 2 2 2 2 2 UG6 1 1 1 1 1 4 UG7 9 9 12 13 14 17 Senior Professional and 4 5 6 6 6 3 Technical Officer Higher Professional and 2 2 2 2 2 3 Technical Officer Total 17 19 23 24 25 29 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. There are no Scientific and Engineering staff in the National Health Service Pensions Agency.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

29900; 278 c79-80W

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Executive agencies Civil service Government departments Staff Department of Health Medicines Control Agency Medical Devices Agency NHS Estates Engineers Scientists

Contains statistics

Yes