§ Mr. Batisteasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many civil servants are employed by his Department in (a) London and the south-east, (b) the south-west, (c) the midlands and (d) the north of England; and what is the budgeted expenditure of his Department for the current year in each of these regions.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe Department employs about 1,200 staff at its London headquarters and 600 at its Darlington office. Seventy-five are employed at the University Grants Committee, also in London. The remaining 600 Department of Education and Science staff mainly Her Majesty's inspectors of schools and their support staff, are based at small divisional and local offices throughout the country. Provision in the Supply Estimates for the Department's gross running costs in 1987–88 is £58.336 million, but it is not possible to break this figure down by location.