§ Mr. ColvinTo ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will clarify the numbers included in the table of staff employed in existing executive agencies which appeared in theOfficial Report, 30 April 1991, columns 112–13.
§ Mr. RentonI apologise for the fact that, owing to an administrative error, the final '0' was omitted from the numbers given in this table. The correct figures are included in the following table.
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Next Steps—Executive Agencies established as of April 1991 Number Building Research Establishment 690 Cadw (Welsh Historic Monuments) 220 Central Office of Information1 730 Central Veterinary Laboratory 580 Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment2 580 Civil Service College 210 Companies House 1,150 Defence Research Agency 11,700 Directorate General of Defence Accounts2 2,100 Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 5,450 Driving Standards Agency 2,050 Employment Service 35,600 Forensic Science Service 580
Number Historic Royal Palaces 300 Historic Scotland 580 HMSO1 3,300 Hydrographic Office2 880 Information Technology Services Agency 3,350 Insolvency Service 1,450 Intervention Board 910 Laboratory of the Government Chemist 320 Land Registry 10,400 Meteorological Office 2,250 Military Survey2 850 National Engineering Laboratory 430 National Physical Laboratory 820 National Weights and Measures Laboratory 50 Natural Resources Institute 390 NHS Estates 120 Occupational Health Service 100 Ordnance Survey 2,500 Patent Office 1,150 Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre 70 Radiocommunications Agency 500 RAF Maintenance2 5,700 Rate Collection Agency (Northern Ireland) 280 Recruitment and Assessment Services Agency 320 Registers of Scotland 1,100 Resettlement Agency 510 Royal Mint1 1,050 Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency 230 Service Children's Schools (North West Europe) 2 2,300 Social Security Benefits Agency 68,000 Social Security Contributions Agency 6,600 Training and Employment Agency (Northern Ireland) 1,700 UK Passport Agency 1,200 Vehicle Certification Agency 70 Vehicle Inspectorate1 1,650 Veterinary Medicines Directorate 70 Warren Spring Laboratory 320 50 in number 183,460 Customs and Excise3 (30 Executive Units) 26,800 210,260 1 Trading funds. 2 Defence Support Agency. Figure does not include service personnel. 3 Moving towards full operation on next steps lines following publication of framework documents. Staffing figures are based on staff in post 1 October 1990