§ Mr. FlightTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many(a) special advisers, (b) press officers, (c) civil servants, (d) advisers to civil servants and (e) permanent staff were working for the Department in each year since 1996. [126476]
§ Mr. McNultyI refer the hon. Member to Table C of the annual publication "Civil Service Statistics", which covers permanent staff numbers for the Department and its agencies from 1995 to 2002. Copies of these are available in the Libraries of the House. Alternatively this information is available from the Cabinet Office website.
There is one special adviser currently in post, a further post is vacant.
There are 16.8 permanent press officers (full-time equivalent) currently employed in the DfT press office.
The job title 'advisers to civil servants' described above does not correspond to any current job titles in this Department.