§ Mr. Georgeasked the Prime Minister if she will list those members of her policy unit appointed since May 1979, the date they were recruited, the organisation from which they were drawn and the date they left the unit, together with the annual running costs for each year since its formation at 1987 prices.
§ The Prime MinisterMembers of the policy unit appointed since May 1979 are as follows:
Name Previous employment Year of appointment Year of departure N. R. Blackwell McKinsey & Company Inc. 1986 — B. Griffiths The City University Business School 1985 — G. R. J. Guise Consolidated Goldfields plc 1986 — V. E. H. Booth Creasey, Son & Wickenden 1984 — D. C. Hobson Coopers & Lybrand 1983 1986 J. Hoskyns 1979 1982 O. Letwin Former Special Adviser 1983 1986 C. W. Monckton Centre for Policy Studies 1982 1986 W. R. F. Mount The Standard Newspapers 1982 1983 A. J. O'Sullivan Times Newspapers 1987 — N. C. Owen Department of Trade and Industry 1983 1986 D. L. Pascall The British Petroleum Company, plc 1983 1984 J. Redwood N. M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd. 1983 1985 P. Shipley Conservative Research Department 1982 1984 N. Strauss Unilever International 1979 1981 P. J. Stredder Department of Trade and Industry 1986 — P. T. Warry Aerospace Engineering plc 1984 1986 D. L. Willetts Her Majesty's Treasury 1984 1986 J. B. Wybrew Shell International Petroleum Company Ltd. 1984 — R. Young Vickers Lid. 1983 1984 The policy unit was formed in March 1974. The salary costs of members of the policy unit since May 1979 at 1987 prices are:
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£ 1979–80 66,147 1980–81 87,924 1981–82 86,043 1982–83 117,797 1983–84 186,153 1984–85 253,427 1985–86 293,844 1986–87 344,490 1987–881 291,000 1 Estimate.