Environmental Health Officers

HC Deb 11 May 1989 vol 152 cc507-8W

Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many environmental health officers are currently employed by each district council in Northern Ireland; and what was the figure for 1984.

Mr. Needham

[holding answer 5 May 1989]: In Northern Ireland environmental health officers, outside Belfast, are employed within regional groups of councils. Some officers are retained at group headquarters and provide specialist services to each constituent council. Each council also has its own complement of environmental health officers. The numbers employed are as follows:

	1984	1989
Belfast	56	59
Eastern group:
HQ	8	9
Ards	5	5
Castlereagh	4	4
Down	5	5
Lisburn	7	7
North Down	6	6

	1984	1989
Northern group:
HQ	11	12
Antrim	3	4
Ballymena	5	6
Ballymoney	2	3
Carrickfergus	2	3
Coleraine	5	7
Cookstown	2	3
Larne	3	3
Magherafelt	2	3
Moyle	1	1
Newtownabbey	5	5
Southern group:
HQ	10	9
Armagh	4	4
Banbridge	2	3
Craigavon	6	7
Dungannon	5	6
Newry and Mourne	5	6
Western group:
HQ	9	9
Derry	7	8
Fermanagh	4	5
Limavady	2	3
Omagh	3	4
Strabane	2	3
Total	191	212