§ Mr. Silvesterasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list the number of information officers, excluding inquiry office and library staff, in each Department and in each Government 621W agency for which the Central Office of Information provides services.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe table below shows by Department, including the agencies in the Department of Employment Group, the total number of staff in post in the information officer group on 1st January 1978, the latest date for which figures are available.
Total figures are given in the table since, from the information held centrally, it is not possible to distinguish information officer group posts in inquiry offices or libraries from those in other areas of information work. The Central Office of Information provides services for a number of Government agencies outside the Civil Service, but no record of their information officer numbers is held centrally.
Departments Total Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 12 Civil Service Department 18 Defence 160 Education and Science 19 Employment Group 81 Energy 20 Environment (including PSA) 67 Health and Social Security 18 Home Office 25 Information, Central Office of 508 National Savings 12 Overseas Development 11 Population, Censuses and Surveys 124 Scottish Office 23 Trade and Industry and Prices and Consumer Protection 177 Transport 13 Treasury 11 Welsh Office 21 Other Departments 30 Total 1,350
Part-time staff are counted as half units.