HC Deb 16 July 1992 vol 211 cc1006-7W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many additional posts have been created by local authorities in Wales to undertake work under part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Mr. Gwilym Jones

The number of full-time equivalent manual and non-manual staff employed on environmental health by Welsh councils was 1,460 on March 1992, an increase of some 8 per cent. on the March 1991 figures.

The Department does not have details of how this increase was distributed between the various environmental health functions.