§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 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. [18331]
§ Sir John Wheeler[holding answer 4 April 1995]: None of the jobs in the Northern Ireland Office and the Northern Ireland Departments that have been transferred to agencies in the past two years have been taken over by contractors; 349 have however disappeared. The breakdown is as follows:
Agency Jobs disappeared Training and Employment Agency 302 Valuation and Lands Agency 28 Ordnance Survey for NI 19