HC Deb 14 June 1989 vol 154 c420W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the number of visiting officers employed in each office of his Department in South Yorkshire from 1979 to date.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

We do not collect centrally information on the number of visiting officers employed on visiting work in individual offices. Staffing resources allocated for visiting in the Department's north-eastern region are estimated from available data for the following years.

Number
1983–84 388
1984–85 517
1985–86 444
1986–87 395
1987–88 345
1988–89 244
1989–90 125

The figures do not include specialist visiting or visiting from contributory benefits.