Departmental Staff

HC Deb 09 July 1998 vol 315 cc577-8W

Mr. Brake

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how staff numbers in his Department have varied between 1 May 1997 and 31 March 1998. [48874]

Mrs. Liddell

Staff numbers¹ in HM Treasury are as follows:

	1 April 19972	1 January 19982	Percentage change
Permanent	888.0	897.5	+1.06
Casual	26.0	26.0	0.00
1Figures are shown as whole time equivalents
2Data are not readily available for either 1 May 1997 or 31 January 1998 and would involve disproportionate cost to obtain

Note:

On 5 January 1998, 95 permanent staff were transferred to the Treasury from the Department of Trade and Industry's Insurance Directorate under a machinery of government change. The vast bulk of them will move again to the Financial Services Authority in due course.