Agriculture Department (Hansard, 14 March 1996)

§ Mr. Llwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many people were employed by his Department's agriculture department in(a) 1993, (b) 1994 and (c) 1995; and if he will make a statement. [20172]

§ Mr. Hague
The total numbers of full-time equivalent permanent staff employed within the Welsh Office agriculture department at 31 December in each year are as follows:

1993: 416
748
1994: 443

1995: 432

§ Mr. Llwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many people he estimates will be employed by the agriculture department at the end of the current year; and if he will make a statement. [20077]

§ Mr. Hague
Four hundred and fifty-four permanent full-time equivalent staff on 31 March 1996.

§ Mr. Llwyd
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many claims for capital grants and environmentally sensitive area payments his Department's agriculture department's divisional offices has processed in(a) 1994 and (b) 1995; and if he will make a statement. [20171]

§ Mr. Gwilym Jones
The information is shown in the following table:

Number of claims processed in

Scheme 1994 1995

Capital grants 3,119 2,070

Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESAs) 1,454 1,384

	Number of claims processed in
Scheme	1994	1995
Capital grants	3,119	2,070
Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESAs)	1,454	1,384