§ Mr. Sean HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the latest available figures for the Property Services Agency in the London pay area of the number of vacancies by grade and the proportion this is of the grade complement in London.
§ Mr. RidleyThis information is not kept in the form requested and it would be disproportionately costly to144W collect it. The Property Services Agency operates under a financial running costs regime and there are no fixed complements for particular grades.
§ Mr. Sean HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide the latest available figures for the Property Services Agency for(a) numbers of staff in receipt of local pay additions, by grade, (b) location of those offices awarding local pay additions and (c) annual cost.
§ Mr. RidleyThe information requested is:
(a) Administrative Assistant (AA) 222 Administrative Officer (AO) 628 Executive Officer (EO) 38 Typist 257 Personal Secretary 87 Senior Personal Secretary 20 Typing Manager 11 All typing grades — 375 (b) Local Pay Additions (LPAs) are paid to AOs, AAs, and typing grades in the inner zone of the London Weighting Area, to typing grades in the intermediate and outer zones and to most AOs and AAs in the outer zone. EOs, AOs, AAs and typing grades are paid LPAs in District Works Offices throughout PSA's London Region. LPAS are also paid to EOs, AOs, AAs and typing grades at Reading, to AOs, AAs and typists at Daws Hill, Watford, High Wycombe, Aldershot and Farnborough and to AAs at Cambridge.
(c) The cost in a full year is £576,000.