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Dept of Trade and Industry

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Mr. Ingram: To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 12 March, Official Report, columns 526-28, how many professional scientists and engineers of each category were employed at each grade, including unified grades, in each of his Department's agencies in each year since 1991.[29833] Mr. John M. Taylor: [holding answer 20 May 1996]: The table shows data for all agencies since 1991 with the position as at 1 January in each year for which relevant information is available. The environmental work of the Warren Spring Laboratory executive agency were merged with that of the Atomic Energy Authority in April 1994; the National Physical Laboratory became a contractually operated agency in October 1995; the National Engineering Laboratory executive agency was privatised on 1 November 1995; and the Laboratory of the government Chemist executive agency was sold on 1 April 1996. Historical data on the specialisms held by staff in the unified grades is not maintained, but of the Department's agencies, the National Weights and Measures Laboratory currently has two grade 7s and one in the senior civil service with a science or engineering disciple and the Radiocommunications Agency has 19 at grade 7 level, six at grade 6 and two in the senior civil service. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Science group Professional and technical group Assistant Scientific Higher Higher Senior Professiona Higher Senior scientific officer scientific scientific scientific l and professiona professiona officer officer officer officer technology l and l and (developmen officer technology technology t) officer officer Companies House 1991 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1992 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1993 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1994 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1995 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1996 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Insolvency Service 1992 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1993 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1994 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1995 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1996 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Laboratory of the Government Chemist 1991 66 63 63 0 33 5 2 6 1992 64 61 67 1 41 5 3 6 1993 49 60 69 1 38 2 4 3 1994 43 63 68 0 40 3 4 4 1995 32 60 64 0 35 3 3 4 1996 28 60 54 0 34 3 3 3 National Engineering Laboratory 1991 14 21 67 0 50 17 6 4 1992 11 22 59 0 55 16 10 4 1993 9 23 57 0 54 16 10 3 1994 9 23 53 0 49 14 11 2 1995 5 21 37 0 34 12 8 2 Year Professional and technical group Assisted Scientific Higher Higher Senior Professiona Higher Senior scientific officer scientific scientific scientific l and professiona professiona officer officer officer officer technology l and l (developmen officer technology technology t) officer officer National physical laboratory 1991 57 87 133 0 111 7 8 14 1992 44 96 137 0 113 7 8 14 1993 33 86 144 1 111 7 8 15 1994 26 73 150 1 108 5 8 17 1995 32 71 161 1 100 5 6 17 National weights and measures laboratory 1991 0 2 0 0 1 4 9 7 1992 0 2 0 0 0 5 9 9 1993 0 1 0 0 0 6 10 8 1994 0 1 0 0 0 7 10 7 1995 0 0 0 0 0 8 10 7 1996 0 0 0 0 0 7 10 7 Patent Office 1991 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Radiocommunications agency 1991 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 17 1992 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 20 1993 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 27 1994 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 26 1995 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 22 1996 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 25 Warren springs laboratory 1991 24 30 63 0 45 2 2 0 1992 27 34 59 0 51 2 2 0 1993 23 25 52 1 48 1 2 0 1994 16 22 48 0 44 1 1 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

29833; 278 c274-8W

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Executive agencies Civil service Department of Trade and Industry Government departments Staff Engineers Scientists

Contains statistics

Yes