§ Mr. RookerTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff of the registrar general and at what grade are engaged in providing population estimates to the Department of the Environment in respect of standard spending assessments and the population report relating to the introduction of the poll tax.
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§ Mr. FreemanThe registrar general has no staff engaged primarily to provide a service to the Department of the Environment in respect of the community charge as such. However, the OPCS population estimates unit, which provides population estimates to all central Government Departments and to local and health authorities, has seven staff, with the following grade structure:
- 1 Grade 7 statistician.
- 1 Senior executive officer.
- 1 Assistant statistician.
- 2 Excutive officers.
- 3 Administrative officers.