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Dept of Trade and Industry;Radiocommunications Agency;Patent Office;Insolvency Service;Companies House;Employment Tribunals Service;National Weights and Measures Laboratory

Answer

Mr. Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will estimate total staff costs for his Department and its agencies by nation and region of the UK; and if she will make a statement. [6835] Ms Hewitt: The paybill costs for the DTI, excluding the Patent Office and Companies House Trading Funds, but including the Department's gross and net controlled agencies, in 1999-2000 were £222 million. A more detailed breakdown is given in the Department's Expenditure Plans Report 2001-02 to 2003-04, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House (Cm 5112). The figure is not broken down geographically, and it would incur disproportionate cost to do so, but the Department's current staff, excluding those at the agencies and in Government offices, are distributed as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Based Number of staff Percentage England 4,457 94.7 Scotland 167 3.5 Wales 81 1.7 Northern Ireland 0 0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. I have asked the agency and Trading Fund chief executives to reply directly in respect of the expenditure and staff for which they are responsible. Letter from Chris de Grouchy to Mr. Michael Weir, dated 23 October 2001: Parliamentary Question--Staff Costs for DTI I am replying on behalf of our Chief Executive David Hendon who is currently away from the office. The total paybill costs, including Superannuation, for the Radiocommunications Agency for 2000-01 were £17.9m. The national and regional breakdown was as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ million England 17.2 Scotland 0.3 Wales 0.2 Northern Ireland 0.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Letter from Claire Clancy to Mr. Michael Weir, dated 23 October 2001: I am responding on behalf of the Patent Office, an Executive Agency of the DTI, to the Parliamentary question tabled on 23 July 2001 in which you asked the Secretary of State if she would estimate total staff costs for her Department and its agencies by nation and region of the UK. The paybill costs for the Patent Office in 2000-2001 were £24.5 million. A more detailed breakdown is given in our Annual Report 2000-01, a copy of which is available in the library of the House. The figure is not broken down geographically but the staff are distributed as follows: 895 (98.7%) are based in Wales; and 12 (1.3%) in England; and 0 (0%) in Scotland; and 0 (0%) in Northern Ireland. Letter from Desmond Flynn to Mr. Michael Weir, dated 23 October 2001: The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has asked me to reply to your question about the total staff costs for The Insolvency Service. The pay bill costs for The Service in 1999-2000 were £36,683,000 and, in 2000-2001 £36,177,000. The figures are included in The Service's annual report and accounts, published in July 2001. The figures are not broken down geographically, and it would incur disproportionate cost to do so, but The Service's current staff are distributed as follows: 1,539 (96.8%) are based in England; 9 (0.6%) in Scotland; 41 (2.6%) in Wales; and 0 (0%) in Northern Ireland. Letter from John Holden to Mr. Michael Weir, dated 23 October 2001: I have been asked to reply to your recently tabled Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in respect of Companies House Executive Agency. The total pay bill including pension contributions and employer's National Insurance cost for the financial year ended 31 March 2001 was £17.4 million. These figures are not readily broken down by Region, but 94% of the workforce is based in Wales, 4% in Scotland and 2% in England. The total employed headcount on a full time equivalent basis was 954 on average for the same period. Letter from Roger Heathcote to Mr. Michael Weir, dated 23 October 2001: I refer to your attached Parliamentary Question of 23 July, 2001. The contribution of the Employment Tribunals Service (ETS) to the total staff costs in question is as follows: Total costs for 2000-2001 for Great Britain were £22,289,000.00. A more detailed breakdown of numbers of staff and costs is given in the Annual Report and Accounts of the Employment Tribunals Service 2000-2001. The report is available at the ETS website, www.ets.gov.uk. The figure is not broken down geographically, and it would incur disproportionate cost to do so, but the Agency's current staff, as at the end of September 2001, are distributed as follows: 607.9 (90.03%) are based in England 51.8 (7.67%) are based in Scotland; and 15.5 (2.30%) are based in Cardiff, Wales. Letter from Iain MacGregor to Mr. Michael Weir, dated 23 October 2001: The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has asked me to reply on behalf of NWML to your question regarding the staff costs for DTI and its Agencies. The figures for NWML are as follows: 1999/2000 = £1.65 M 2000/2001 = £1.74 M

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

6835; 373 c138-40W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Executive agencies Civil servants Department of Trade and Industry Government departments Pay

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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