§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 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. [122264]
§ Ms HewittData on staffing levels in the Civil Service is collected from departments and 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 on the world wide web at www.civil-service.gov.uk/statistics. Copies of these documents are also placed in the Libraries of House.
More detailed information on the Civil Service is published annually in 'Civil Service Statistics', copies of which are laid in the Libraries of the House. The last edition, based on April 2002 data, was published on 24 July 2003.
The Cabinet Office publishes information on non-departmental public bodies in its annual publication Public Bodies'. The information includes details of the number of staff employed by each NDPB at 31 March each year. 'Public Bodies 2002' was published in January 2003. Copies of 'Public Bodies' published each year since 1997 are available in the Libraries of House.
Information on costs cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.