§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many staff were employed in his Department on 31 December(a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999, (d) 2000, (e) 2001 and (f) 2002; and how many are employed there now. [139543]
§ Hilary BennStaff numbers for DFID permanent and pensionable Home Civil Service (HCS) staff, for each year from 1997 to 2002 inclusive, published in our annual Departmental Reports from 1998, are set out as follows.
Details of the available figures are contained in the following table:
HCS staff in UK headquarters
HCS staff overseas
Total 1997 1,007 170 1,177 1998 1,200 180 1,380 1999 1,279 195 1,474 2000 1,292 209 1,501 2001 1,374 224 1,598 2002 1,433 241 1,674 Total HCS staff numbers (headquarters and overseas) at 1 October 2003 was 1,744.
942WWe do not hold annual staff numbers for locally appointed staff in our Overseas offices (SAIC). However, we can say that the number of SAIC in post in March 2003 was 914.
§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many staff were employed in his Department when the 2002 spending review was completed; and how many he expects to be in post at the end of financial year 2005–06. [139544]
§ Hilary BennDetails of DFID staffing figures for 2002 are taken from our published Departmental Report for 2003.
The numbers of permanent and pensionable Home Civil Service (HCS) staff in post at that time, are as detailed in the following table:
2000 Number HCS staff in UK headquarters 1,433 HCS staff overseas 241 Total 1,674 By the end of the Financial Year 2005–06, we forecast that these numbers will have risen to 1,774.
The number of locally appointed In-Country staff (SAIC) was 914 in March 2003. At this stage, we cannot say what future impact our reduced effort in middle income countries will have on these figures.