Unemployment Offices and Jobcentres

HC Deb 12 June 1978 vol 951 cc363-4W

Mr. Nicholas Winterton

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the total wages and salaries bill for each of

which complete details are not available to the Health and Safety Executive, the small number of informations laid by factory inspectors under the OSRPA and its regulations are combined with figures for the Factories Act and its regulations. No record of maximum fines is maintained but it is known, for example, that one case under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 attracted a fine of £5,000 during 1976 and that during 1977 a similar fine was imposed following conviction of a company for a breach of regulations.

the unemployment offices and jobcentres throughout the United Kingdom.

Mr. John Grant

The wages and salaries costs for individual offices are not recorded in my Department's records, nor do they include Northern Ireland offices. Information is available, however, about the total wages and salaries expenditure in all unemployment benefit offices in Great Britain, as follows:

1976–77	…	…	…	…	£55,845,324
1977–78	…	…	…	…	£61,213,055*
1978–79	…	…	…	…	£68,686,000†
* Provisional.
† Estimate.

The equivalent information in Manpower Services Commission records includes expenditure in all district offices, employment offices and jobcentres in Britain, all of whom are concerned in providing the public employment services, and is as follows:

1976–77	…	…	…	…	£43,795,000
1977–78	…	…	…	…	£49,957,000*
1978–79	…	…	…	…	£48,956,000†
* Provisional.
† Estimate.