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Dept of the Environment Transport and the Regions

Answer

Ms Roseanna Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many people are employed by Ordnance Survey in Scotland, broken down by job category; what facilities for map making the Ordnance Survey maintains in Scotland; and if he will provide a breakdown of Ordnance Survey spending in Scotland as a ratio of overall spending in each year since 1990. [28551] Mr. Raynsford: [holding answer 11 February 1998]: Ordnance Survey in Great Britain currently employs 66 people in Scotland, 63 of whom are based in the seven Scottish field offices which are located in Inverness, Aberdeen, Glenrothes, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hamilton and Ayr. These people are directly involved in the surveying and capturing of mapping data to update the National Topographic Database (NTD) and other related products (eg ADDRESS-POINT {tm}). In addition, Ordnance Survey Scottish Region is responsible for the re-mapping of parts of Cumbria. The data collected are sent to Ordnance Survey's headquarters in Southampton where they are incorporated into the NTD and related databases; no actual map making is carried out in the field offices. The table provides a breakdown of the types of jobs Ordnance Survey staff based in Scotland are engaged in: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Job title Number of staff Region Manager 1 Chief Surveyor 5 Surveyors 49 Administrators 5 Survey Assistants 3 Field Sales Executive for Scotland 1 Regional Account Manager for Scotland 1 Assistant Regional Account Manager for Scotland 1

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

28551; 306 c420W

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Employment Expenditure Maps Staff Ordnance Survey Scotland

Contains statistics

Yes