§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many staff the Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which the Department is responsible had in each year since 1997; and what the cost of those staff was in each of those years. [122255]
§ Mr. McNultyData on staffing levels in the Civil Service are collected from the department and its agencies twice-yearly, in April and October. Headline figures are published under National Statistics guidelines via a press notice. Those for October 2002 were published on 27 February 2003.
A copy of the press notice, accompanying media brief and supporting tables is available at www.civil-service.gov.uk/statistics.
More detailed information on the Civil Service is published annually in 'Civil Service Statistics'. The last edition, based on April 2001 data, was published in June 2002. The next edition, based on April 2002 data, is due to be published at the end of July 2003.
Data on staff in non-departmental public bodies are published by Cabinet Office in its annual publication. The latest edition 'Public Bodies 2002', was published in January 2003.
Staff costs for the Department for Transport can be found in our Annual Report 2003.
Copies of both the Civil Service Statistics and Public Bodies 2002 are available in the Libraries of the House.