§ Mr. David Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the average cost of each office of the professional and executive job finding register and the average number of people employed in each.
§ Mr. GoldingI am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that Professional and Executive Recruitment (PER) has public offices in 36 locations, These vary greatly in the volumes of business handled and therefore in numbers of staff and running costs.
Based on the provisional expenditure figures for the financial year just ended, the average running cost in 1977–78 is estimated at £165,000 per office and the average number of staff employed, based on the latest available staffing figures, is 19.