HC Deb 04 April 1995 vol 257 c998W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the jobs that have been lost to agencies in his Department in the past two years that have(a) been taken over by contractors and (b) disappeared. [18323]

Miss Widdecombe

The number of posts lost to the Employment Service between 1 April 1993 and 31 March 1995 as a result of work being taken over by external contractors totalled 574.

The total reduction in posts within ES over the same period was 3,280. The main factor in this drop has been falling levels of unemployment, to which much ES staffing is related.