§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many staff the Department and each 487W 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. [122257]
§ Mr. PearsonThe information is as follows:
Staffing
The staffing figures to reflect both NI Civil Servants and Home Civil Servants, in each year since 1997, for the Northern Ireland Office, the Northern Ireland Departments and their respective Agencies, are set out in Tables A and B.
The staffing figures for associated NDPBs are available from the Cabinet Office 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 both Houses.
Table A: Staffing—Northern Ireland Office and Agencies 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Core Department 992 964 961 935 930 1,003 Agencies: Compensation Agency 120 131 120 130 132 139 Forensic Science NI 122 120 118 122 130 132 NI Prison Service 3,212 3,017 2,730 2,119 2,124 1,989 Total 4,446 4,232 3,929 3,306 3,316 3,263 488W
Table B: Staffing—Northern Ireland Departments and Agencies 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Core NI Departments 6,312 5,941 5,866 7,529 7,896 8,937 Agencies: Business Development Service 227 238 278 268 266 246 Child Support Agency 294 306 321 319 394 426 Construction Service 576 557 516 509 507 1— Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 275 297 320 351 398 414 Driver and Vehicle Testing Agency 318 326 319 348 391 445 Environment and Heritage Service 352 360 354 372 410 522 Forest Service — 412 395 387 372 360 Government Purchasing Agency 72 91 100 79 89 1— Industrial Research and Technology Unit 143 141 148 154 171 2— Land Registers for NI 205 199 195 194 201 232 NI Health and Social Services Estates Agency3— 120 117 114 119 119 122 NI Statistics and Research Agency 177 219 255 290 301 318 Ordnance Survey NI 177 178 175 176 179 197 Planning Service 386 420 452 484 529 592 Public Record Office NI 62 67 68 70 69 73 Rate Collection Agency 256 250 233 238 234 261 Rivers Agency 460 431 420 402 408 441 Roads Service 2,207 2,163 2,162 2,175 2,230 2,214 Social Security Agency 5,555 5,582 5,526 5,732 6,091 6,194 Training and Employment Agency 1,318 1,365 1,269 1— 1— 1— Valuation and Lands Agency 270 222 267 268 279 261 Water Service 2,278 2,228 2,216 2,176 2,202 2,147 Sub-total 15,728 16,169 16,103 15,111 15,840 15,465 Total4— 22,040 22,110 21,969 22,640 23,736 24,402 1 Part of NI Departmental Core in that year. 2 Part of Invest NI (NDPB) in that year. 3 Average figures provided. 4 Excludes NI civil servants working in NDPBs. Staff costs
With the introduction of Devolution in Northern Ireland in December 1999, Northern Ireland Departments restructured and increased in number from six to 11. In addition, as a consequence of the transitions to resource accounting, outturn information from 2000–01 onwards is held on a resource basis, prior to this only cash based information is available. For these reasons, the only years for which comparable outturn information is available is for 2000–01 onwards. However, the outturn information provided for 2002–03 is based on provisional outturn and therefore is not directly comparable to 2000–01 or 2001–02, which are based on final outturn.
Staffing costs for the Northern Ireland Office and the Northern Ireland Departments and their respective Agencies are set out in Table C.
The staffing costs for associated NDPBs of the Northern Ireland Office and the Northern Ireland Departments are available from the annual accounts of each body.
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Table C: Staffing cost for Departments and their Agencies £000 Department 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 Northern Ireland Office 115,000 115,000 119,000 of which: Compensation Agency 2,470 2,605 2,915 Forensic Science Northern Ireland 3,549 3,743 4,092 Compensation Agency 82,256 70,867 75,069 DARD 76,575 86,320 83,804 of which: Forest Service Agency 6,989 6,479 5,890 Rivers Agency 8,606 10,219 9,064 DCAL 8,642 9,609 12,388 of which: Ordnance Survey (NI) 4,625 4,801 5,693 Public Records Office (NI) 1,493 1,509 1,784 DE 14,767 16,443 16,893 DEL 30,698 28,543 33,731 DETI 27,774 29,623 16,548 of which: Industrial Research and Technology Unit 4,023 4,573 1— DFP 54,121 65,429 64.944 of which: Business Development Service 5,880 5.905 5,755 Rates Collection Agency 4,273 4,106 4,817 Valuation and Lands Agency 7,292 7,910 7,430 NI Statistics and Research Agency 6,438 8,743 7,011 Central Procurement Directorate 2,104 2,069 2,238 Construction Service 15,005 14,565 14,194 DHSSPS 24,682 26,659 28,584 of which: Health Estates Agency 4,028 4,120 4,309 DOE 33,074 32,800 44,619 of which: Driver and Vehicle Testing Agency 0 617 622 Driver and Vehicle Licensing NI 9,081 7,338 11,253 Planning Service 11,166 12,090 14,022 Environment and Heritage Service 8,329 9,005 12,287 DRD 115,317 108,368 112,534 of which: Roads Service 50,334 46,420 48,900 Water Service 52,713 49,815 51,046 DSD 131,596 144,027 154,792 of which: Child Support Agency 5,767 7,278 8,104 Social Security Agency 82,954 91,510 98,390 OFMDFM 7,766 9,675 11,475 Total 525,012 557,496 580,312 1IRTU became part of Invest NI from 2002–03 and is included in DETI composite figure for that year. Notes:
1. Figure work for 2000–01 and 2001–02 based on Final Outturn.
2. Figure work for 2002–03 based on Provisional Outturn.