§ Mr. CabornTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what functions his Department carries out at the regional level; where the regional offices are located in each of the regions; what staff are employed and at what grades; what proportion of his Department's budget is spent in each of the regions; and what geographical boundaries determine his Department's regions.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe Department has no administrative regional organisation, although HMI has a divisional structure. There is one administrative outstation in Darlington which deals with teachers' pensions and some other functions. Details of the Darlington outstation and of HMI's divisional structure are as follows:
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Administrative outstation in Darlington Grades and numbers of staff Grades Number G5 1 G6 2 G7 9 SEO 25 HEO 67 EO 127
Her Majesty's Inspectorate's Divisional Structure Division Grade and Numbers of Staff Proportion of Department's 1 Budget Per cent. HMI Support Staff G5 G6 EO AO AA P/Sec Typist Eastern Barking and Dagenham, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Havering, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Newham, Redbridge, Suffolk, Waltham Forest 1.0 54.0 1.0 1.8 3.5 6.0 10.0 3.3 Metropolitan South Midland Barnet, Brent, Buckinghamshire, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, ILEA, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire 3.0 62.0 1.0 1.0 3.0 6.0 13.2 3.9 Midland Derbyshire, Hereford and Worcester, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands 4.0 62.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 7.0 15.0 3.9 Northern Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Humberside, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Yorkshire 3.0 63.0 1.0 1.2 3.0 7.0 15.5 3.9 North Western Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside 4.0 60.0 1.0 1.0 2.6 4.0 13.0 3.7 Southern Berkshire, Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Kingston on Thames, Merton, Richmond on Thames, Surrey, Sutton, West Sussex 12.0 49.0 1.0 2.0 4.5 6.0 12.1 3.8 South Western Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucester, Isles of Scilly, Somerset, Wiltshire 3.0 44.0 1.0 1.0 0.8 5.0 10.1 2.8 1 The percentage figures represent the proportion of the Department's running costs for 1990–91.