HC Deb 13 June 2003 vol 406 c324W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many staff have been employed in the Ministerial Correspondence Unit of the Department in each of the last two years. [115871]

Ms Hewitt

The DTI do not have a central correspondence unit. However, during the last two years, 17 people have been employed handling Ministerial correspondence across individual Ministers offices within my Department.