§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the use of private detective agencies and security companies by his Department.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe Employment Department group regularly contracts with security companies to provide protection for a number of its headquarters premises and occasionally employs them to protect temporarily empty premises, patrol jobcentres and hold keys for emergency call-outs.
The Employment Service has used private detective agencies, through retained solicitors, on two occasions—to 166W make financial inquiries when an individual was in default of rent payment commitments and when proceedings had to be served on an individual who was negligent in a land transaction.