§ Mr. William RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table to show the number of persons employed by his Department in systems, programming and computer operation, including the major operations carried out.
§ Mr. Cope[holding answer 27 February 1990]: The number of computer staff employed on information technology in Northern Ireland Departments, the Northern Ireland Office and Police Authority for Northern Ireland is as follows:
Numbers Senior systems analyst 71 Systems analysts 144 Programmer analysts 133 Programmers 129 Operations and data processing 116 Total 593