§ Mr. Michael Lathamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what estimate he has made of the total number of architects who are employed (a) by his Department, (b) the PSA, (c) other Government Departments, (d) local authorities and (e) other public sector bodies; what proportion each represents of the total architectural strength of the country, as registered with ARCUK; and what proportion of the total workload of design commissions is carried out by each sector.
§ Mr. FreesonThere are 480 architects employed in the PSA and a further 200 in the rest of the Department. Some 220 are employed in other Government Departments. The remaining information could not be provided without disproportionate effort.
§ Mr. Michael Lathamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of public sector design work is carried out by architects employed by (a) the public and (b) the private sector; and what are the specific figures for his Department and, the PSA, respectively.
§ Mr. FreesonThere is no information centrally available about the handling of design work in the public sector generally. Most of the architectural design work in my Department is handled within the PSA. The proportion of this for which architects in private practice are commissioned varies from time to time, but last year it is estimated at about 25 per cent.