§ Mr. Alex Carlileasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the staff of the Equal Opportunities Commission is employed upon investigations and what proportion on purely administrative tasks.
§ Mr. WaddingtonIt is not possible to divide up the work of the Commission's staff in this way.
§ Mr. Alex Carlileasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent by the Equal Opportunities Commission in each of the last three years on the employment of public relations consultants.
§ Mr. WaddingtonNothing so far, but I understand that the Commission has recently authorised expenditure of up to £8,000 on fees to public relations consultants.
§ Mr. Alex Carlileasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost of the recruitment of the new chief executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission; and how much was paid to the recruitment consultants concerned.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI understand from the Commission that the directly attributable costs of recruitment of the new Chief Executive are currently estimated at about £13,700, of which £7,728 represents fees to consultants.
§ Mr. Alex Carlileasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the Equal Opportunities Commission's expenditure is spent upon salaries, rent, rates, telephone, travel and other similar expenditure and what proportion is devoted to specific projects within the commission's terms of reference.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI refer the hon. Member to the account of the Equal Opportunities Commission for280W 1983–84 which was presented to Parliament and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 23 October 1984 as Paper 631.