§ Mr. HendersonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many press officers there are in his Department currently; and what the figure was in 1979. [16574]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe Department of the Environment currently employs 31.5 information officers, including those employed by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution. All deal with the full range of information services; none are exclusively press officers.
641WThe records for 1979 show that there were 40 professional information officers employed by the Department.