HC Deb 18 January 1993 vol 217 cc126-8W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many staff were employed by his Department's press office in each year since 1979.

Mr. Howard

[holding answer 15 January 1993]: The staff in post for the information directorate since 1 April 1989 are as follows:

Number
1 April 1989 47
1 April 1990 43
1 April 1991 45
1 April 1992 43

Before 1989, the information directorate of this Department was part of the common services of DOE and Department of Transport and separate figures for the resources for each Department are not available. Global information for this period is published each year in the form of a management information system for Ministers (MINIS) dating back to 1979 and is available in the House of Commons Library.