§ Dr. Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many officials, full-time equivalent, in his Department were working on (a) rate support grant and (b) local authority finance and statistics, excluding rate support grant, in each year since 1974–75.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinInformation on the numbers of staff directly engaged on these functions is not available for the period before the introduction of the Management Information System for Ministers (MINIS) in 1980.
Since then the full-time equivalent of the staff effort directly engaged has been as follows:
a b 1979–80 65 35 1980–81 62 34 1981–82 62 51 1982–83 63 47 1983–84 68 56