HC Deb 24 July 1984 vol 64 cc622-4W
Mr. Latham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will set out in tabular form for 1 April 1983 and 1 April 1984 the total number of staff currently in post in the Director-General of Design Services; and whether he will break these figures down into Civil Service grades, indicating also the number of persons trained in relevant professional disciplines.

Mr. Gow

The number of staff in post in the Director-General of Design Services on 1 April 1983 and 1 April 1984 was as follows:

1 April 1983 1 April 1984
Grade 3 3 1
Grade 4 — 2
Grade5 6 6
Grade 6 16 17
Professional and Technology Group:—
Principal Professional and Technology Officers 68 67
Other Professional and Technology Officers 298 311
Science Group:—
Principal Scientific Officers 1 —
Other Science Grades 2 2
Adminstrative Group:—
Principal — —
Others 91 91
Secretarial and other staff 20 22
505 519
Professionally qualified staff comprised—
Architects and Landscape Architects 44 47
Civil Engineers 56 57
Mechanical and Electrical Engineers 54 55
Quantity Surveyors 39 37
Building Surveyors 13 13
Land Surveyors 5 5
211 214
Other staff with scientific or technical qualifications 180 190
391 404

Mr. Latham

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will list the current design programme of work of the design office of the Director General of Design Services, indicating any change since 12 July 1982 arising either from completion of the work or the postponement of the scheme on economy grounds.

Mr. Gow

The current programme of work of the Design Standards Office of the Director General of Design Services is as follows:

In construction (inhouse)

  • *HMS Osprey
    • Physical and Recreational Training Centre.
  • *Boulmer
    • Redevelopment of the Domestic Site for the RAF—
    • Phase 1A Officers' Mess and Quarters.
  • *Saxa Vord
    • Phase 2A Junior Ranks Social Club for the RAF.
  • *Stone
    • British Telecommunications Training Centre —
    • Administration Building, Central Amenities, Ancillary Services.
  • Stocken
    • Young Offenders' Establishment.
  • Appleton Thorn
    • Young Offenders' Establishment and staff club (already started), mess and car park (now started).

In construction (by consultants)

  • Wayland
    • Category C Medium and Long Term Prison, Laundry and on-site staff housing.
  • *Full Sutton
    • Category B Non-Dispersal Prison.
  • *Mount (formerly Bovingdon)
    • Category C Medium and Long term prison and on-site housing.
  • *Gaynes Hall
    • Category C Medium and Long Term Prison.

In design (inhouse)

  • HMS Sultan
    • Physical and Recreational Training Centre.
  • Boulmer
    • Redevelopment of the Domestic Site for the RAF—Phase 1B.
    • Combined Mess, Airmens' Club, Senior NCOs and Junior Ranks Accommodation and Boiler House; Phase 2 Medical and Dental Centre and Motor Transport Section.
  • Saxa Vord
    • Phase 2B Combined Mess for the RAF.
  • Croydon
    • Crown and County Courts.
  • Woolwich
    • Rehabilitation of Officers' Married Quarters, Prince Imperial Estate.
  • Swaleside
    • Category B Non-Dispersal Prison—staff club.

In design (by consultants)

  • Stocken
    • Young Offenders' Establishment—on site housing. Full Sutton
    • Category B Non-Dispersal Prison—on site housing.
  • Swaleside
    • Category B Non-Dispersal Prison.
  • Garth
    • Category B Non-Dispersal Prison.
  • Featherstone
    • Second Male Prison.
  • Woolwich
    • Urban Prison and on-site staff housing.
  • March
    • Category C Medium and Long term prison.
  • Bicester
    • Category B Non-Dispersal Local prison.
  • Lancaster Farms
    • Young Offenders' Establishment.
  • Wymott
    • Category C Short term prison—remedial works. In Feasibility (inhouse)
  • Milton Keynes
    • Category B Non-Dispersal Local Prison.

Changes in the programme of work since 12 July 1982 have been:

  • New schemes introduced into DSO—those marked*

Schemes completed

  • Stone
    • British Telecommunications Training Centre Sports Complex.
  • HMS Sultan
    • Laboratory Block and Classrooms.
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  • Saxa Vord
    • Junior Ranks Accommodation for the RAF.
  • *Lympstone
    • Lecture Theatre for Royal Marines— started after 12 July and completed.
  • *Poole
    • Officers' Mess Extension for Royal Marines— started after 12 July and completed.
  • Birmingham
    • Prison ancillary facilities.

Schemes Postponed

  • Nil.