§ Mr. LordTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many extra staff have been taken on by her Department to deal with(a) recent integrated administra-tion and control system forms and (b) her Department's deregulatory initiatives.
§ Mr. JackMy Department has provision in 1993–94 for a total of 700 additional posts to deal with work arising out of CAP reform as a whole. It is not possible to distinguish the actual number taken on to deal with recent IACS forms.
The Ministry has made deregulation a high priority task for all its operating divisions. This work is co-ordinated by a deregulation unit which now has four full-time staff and one part-time member compared with four part-time members at the beginning of the year.
§ Mr. LordTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many people were employed by her Department in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. JackThe information requested is given in the table, which covers all established staff in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, including its agencies. Part-time staff are counted as half-units and the year total are rounded to whole numbers. Figures for 1984–92 are those published by Her Majesty's Treasury in "Civil Sevice Statistics". The 1993 figure is taken from Her Majesty's Treasury statistical system MANDATE.
Year1 Total 1984 11,476 1985 11,393 1986 11,009 1987 10,480 1988 10,318 1989 10,100 1990 9,881 1991 10,097 1992 9,782 1993 10,038 1 1 April.