HC Deb 16 December 1980 vol 996 cc77-8W
44. Mr. Ioan Evans

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many unemployment review officers and re-establishment personnel are employed by his Department.

Mr. Prentice

Not all unemployment review officers are engaged full-time on unemployment review, but the number is now roughly equivalent to 900 full-time posts. This figure includes about 60 officers allocated to the unemployment review of people receiving unsupplemented unemployment benefit. Of the 17 re-establishment centres run by the Department, 14 are combined with resettlement units and the duties of some staff overlap. Apart from centre managers, the full-time equivalent of staff concerned with re-establishment work is about 114.