HC Deb 20 June 2002 vol 387 cc538-9W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many staff were employed by his Department on(a) 2 May 1997 and (b) 31 May 2002. [60930]

Jane Kennedy

Information is not held in the format requested.

Full-time equivalent staff numbers in the Northern Ireland Office, for 1997–98 and April 2002, including civil servants, special advisers and prison governor and uniformed prison officer grades, are as follows:

In 1997–98 there were 4,446 staff employed in the Department.

In April 2002 there were 3,318 staff employed in the Department.