HC Deb 19 July 1988 vol 137 c557W
Mr. Warren

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many computer work stations there are in his Department; what is the ratio of work stations to civil servants; and how he expects this to change over the next five years.

Mr. Lee

There are 16,540 computer work stations in the employment department group; a ratio of one to every 3.5 civil servants. I would expect this ratio to improve over the next five years as the use of information technology throughout the group continues to expand.