§ Ms. QuinTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give for each standard planning region of England(a) the number of employees of his Department, (b) the amount spent on wages and salaries and (c) the proportion of total expenditure in each region by his Department which is represented by personnel costs.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyThe number of employees in each economic planning region of England at 21 June was as follows:
Region Northern 444 Yorkshire and Humberside 689 North West 840 East Midlands 547 West Midlands 776 East Anglia 306 South East 2,146 South West 1,103 London 2,818 The Department does not have a breakdown by former planning region of the amount spent on wages and salaries or of the proportion of total expenditure which personnel costs represents.