HC Deb 20 May 1996 vol 278 cc14-5W
Mr. Ingram

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 11 MarchOfficial Report, column 431, how many professional engineers and technology officers of each category were employed at each grade in each of the Department of Education and Employment agencies in each year since 1991. [29826]

Mr. Robin Squire

The DFEE agencies employed one higher professional technology officer in the Employment Service in each year from 1 January 1991 to 1 January 1995. There are no practising professional engineers.

There may be professionally qualified engineers and technology officers working in mainstream grades. However, this information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.