§ Mr. William RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many civil servants, by Department, are employed in each council area in Northern Ireland; and what is his estimate of total salaries paid in respect of those employees in each council area.
§ Sir John WheelerThe information requested in respect of civil servants employed by the Northern Ireland Office and the Northern Ireland Departments is as follows:
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District council DFP DED DOE DHSS DANI DENI NIO (including PANI) Magherafelt — 15 89 71 21 — 18 Moyle — — 47 — 33 — 1 Newry and Mourne — 77 237 175 72 — 35 Newtownabbey — 142 74 82 17 — 26 North Down 29 16 138 74 — 510 58 Omagh 13 53 408 85 219 — 44 Strabane — 13 81 72 43 — 19
District Council Estimated total salaries (£) Antrim 7,126,390 Ards 4,176,401 Armagh 8,232,233 Ballymena 12,748,861 Ballymoney 1,907,594 Banbridge 2,278,365 Belfast 222,160,030 Carrickfergus 3,418,744 Castlereagh 8,349,002 Coleraine 12,700,635 Cookstown 5,252,903 Craigavon 14,254,904 Down 10,075,777 Dungannon 6,256,413 Fermanagh 10,372,301 Larne 2,730,642 Limavady 2,756,806 Lisburn 12,204,910 Derry City 12,913,559 Magherafelt 2,787,368 Moyle 1,050,692 Newry and Mourne 8,287,133 Newtownabbey 7,086,151 North Down 13,880,000 Omagh 12,437,926 Strabane 2,906,877
§ Mr. William RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the number of civil service jobs(a) created and (b) transferred to each location within Northern Ireland and to Northern Ireland from elsewhere in the United Kingdom; and if he will show for each such movement the location from which they were moved and the type of employment and grades of civil servants involved and the cost of the movement in payments to personnel and for buildings, equipment and furnishings.
§ Sir John WheelerThe number of jobs created and detailed information on the movement of civil service jobs could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, the number of civil service jobs in the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments transferred within Northern Ireland since 1990 were as follows:
Number From To 1990 — — — 1991 664 Stormont Belfast city centre 18 Belfast Londonderry 66W
Performance Markings Grade Total Box 1 Per cent. Box 2 Per cent. Box 3 Per cent. Box 4/5 Per cent. Analysis of year ending 31 December 1991 Grade 5 and Analogous 21 1 4.8 17 80.9 3 14.3 — — Grade 6 and Analogous 46 6 13.0 31 67.4 8 17.4 1 2.2 Grade 7 and Analogous 91 12 13.2 65 71.4 14 15.4 — — Deputy Principal and Analogous 173 19 11.0 101 58.4 52 30.1 1 0.5 Staff Office and Analogous 169 15 8.9 100 59.2 53 31.3 1 0.6
Number From To 24 Hydebank Belfast city centre 1992 — — — 1993 62 Stormont Londonderry 98 Bangor Londonderry 364 Stormont Belfast city centre 11 Coleraine Belfast 13 Antrim Belfast Although no jobs in the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments were transferred to Northern Ireland from elsewhere in the United Kingdom, the following new jobs were attracted to Northern Ireland from Great Britain:
- 580 social security benefit processing jobs to deal with claims from areas of central London have been created in a Belfast benefit centre since June 1990;
- 211 jobs relating to accounting work on encashed books were created at a paid order unit in Lisahally, County Londonderry in 1991. This work was formerly carried out by the Post Office on the mainland; and
- 455 jobs have been created in Belfast since 1993 to assess, collect and enforce child maintenance on behalf of the Great Britain Child Support Agency.