§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the total number of staff employed by the Property Services Agency at the latest available date; and what proportion of this figure is (a) administrative staff and (b) manual workers and other operatives.
§ Mr. ShoreA total of 40,105 at 1 February 1979. Of these 20,751 were industrial and 19,354 non-industrial staff, including 6,074 in grades in the administration group. These figures exclude locally engaged staff overseas of whom there were 6,877 on 1 January 1979.
§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the net cost to public funds of the Property Services Agency for the latest available year; what proportion of the cost is attributable to salaries; and what proportion is allocated to the provision of office and general accommodation services in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. ShoreThe net cost to public funds of the service provided by the Property Services Agency in 1977–78 was £840 million of which some £290 million was attributable to the office and general accommodation programme in the United Kingdom. Salaries etc. of non-industrial staff amounted to £64 million or approximately 7½ per cent. of total net costs: a further £67 million or about 8 per cent., was for pay of industrial staff.
§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many square feet of office space in the United Kingdom has been leased by the 431W Property Services Agency since April 1974; and what has been the total cost.
§ Mr. MarksA total of 8,848,455 square feet between 1 April 1974 and 31 March 1979 at a total annual cost of £29,377,611.