HC Deb 11 June 2003 vol 406 c932W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many staff have been employed in the Ministerial Correspondence Unit of the Department in each of the last two years. [115879]

Ms Rosie Winterton

The number of staff employed in my Department's Ministerial Correspondence Unit, at 1 April of the last two years, is as follows:

Number
2002–03 2
2003–04 2

These numbers are of substantive civil servants only and exclude the temporary agency and contract staff who may have worked in the Ministerial Correspondence Unit over this period. The Ministerial Correspondence Unit currently employs one temporary agency staff/member.