§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give, for each of the last five years, the number of full-time and part-time disablement resettlement officers, respectively.
Full-time Part-time Senior Date DROs* DROs† DROs October 1966 … … … … 208 977 — November 1968 … … … … 307 850 — September 1970 … … … … 453 76 21 September 1972 … … … … 473 58 21 March 1975 … … … … 502 — 59 * In addition to the above there are currently 31 blind persons resettlement officers and nine blind persons training officers in post who are concerned solely with the resettlement of blind people. There are also 28 DROs employed full-time in the employment rehabilitation centres. † Part-time DROs were those officers who spent between two hours and 30 hours a week on DRO duties. Equivalent full-time figures are not available.