§ Mr. McNamaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many state employees, or
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Housing and Planning Act 1986: S.I6 Housing Management Grants Name and address of organisation Grant terms of reference (geographical coverage) Grant approved for 1987–88 Grant provisionally approved for 1988–89 £ £ CDS Co-operative Housing Society Ltd., 140 Stockwell Road, London SW9 9TQ To inform local authorities and tenants and residents groups about TMC's and undertake feasibility studies (London and the home counties) 31,727 72,800 Chisel (Co-operative Housing in South East London) Ltd., 184A Brownhill Road, London SE6 2DJ To promote TMC's and par-value co-ops amongst public sector tenants and provide training and management services to help tenants run such co-ops (SE London and Kent) 7,500 12,700 East London Housing Association Ltd., 187A Romford Road, London E15 4JF To facilitate tenant control and community development along cooperative lines on a new estate in Newham (East London) 2,085 8,000 Solon Co-operative Housing Services Ltd., 223A Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2JT To part finance the setting up of a Tenant Initiatives Unit to promote, service and support TMC's and community ownership co-operatives (NW London and adjacent home counties) 12,900 67,600 Solon Wandsworth Housing Association, 49A Lavender Hill, London SW11 5QN To promote TMC's using a co-op worker and co-op link workers to establish dialogue with council officers and members (SW London) 7,500 19,200 employees of state agencies, spent all or part of their time in debt recovery under the Payments for Debt (Emergency Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971, in 1987.
Mr. Stanley [holding answer 15 January 1988]: The number of employees in Government Departments and public bodies working on debt recovery under this legislation is as follows:
DHSS (NI) Northern Ireland Electricity —40 Belfast Gas —9 full-time equivalent DOE (NI) —120 with varying degrees of involvement Information on the number of employees of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive involved in this work is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.