§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list for each business link(a) its location and (b) the number of staff employed. [28533]
§ Mr. PageI am placing a list of business link addresses in the Library of the House.
Business links are partnerships involving all the main business support organisations. As such, their services are provided by staff who are employed by those organisations but co-located in or seconded to the business links, as well as by staff who are directly employed by the business link itself. There is no central record of the numbers of staff employed in each business link and the information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the President of the Board of Trade how many DTI civil servants are currently employed in the business links. [28537]
§ Mrs. RocheTo ask the President of the Board of Trade how many civil servants from his Department have been seconded to business links; and where each of them is currently situated. [28154]
§ Mr. Page[holding answer 7 May 1996]: A total of 107 DTI staff were co-located in business links on 1 May 1996. They are located as follows:
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Number Abingdon 1 Aykley Heads 2 Barnsley 2 Barrow in Furness 1 Birkenhead 1 Birmingham 6 Blyth 2 Bradford 1 Brighouse 1 Burgess Hill 2 Cannock 2 Carlisle 1 Chelmsford 1 Chester 1 Chesterfield 2 Coventry 4 Derby 2 Dudley 2 Edwinstowe 3 Fareham 1 Gateshead 3 Histon 1 Ipswich 1 Leeds 1 Leicester 3 Lincoln 2 Liverpool 2 Luton 1 Manchester 5 Middlesborough 3
Number Newport 1 Northampton 2 Nottingham 2 Oxford 1 Peterborough 1 Plymouth 2 Poole 2 Redditch 1 Redruth 2 Rotherham 1 Sandwell 2 Sheffield 1 Slough 2 Solihull 1 St. Helens 1 St. Albans 1 Stoke on Trent 3 Sunderland 3 Telford 3 Wakefield 1 Walsall 2 West Malling 2 Wigan 3 Woking 2 Wolverhampton 1 Worcester 3 Wyre Forest 1