The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated July 2009:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many full-time equivalent civil servants were employed in (a) the City of York unitary local authority and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber by each Government department and executive agency in each year since 1996. 285752""In order to provide the information requested for York, ad hoc analysis has been required. This analysis is based on the Mandate collection (1997-2006) which provides approximately 90 per cent coverage of Civil Service departments and agencies and the Annual Civil Service Employment Survey (2007-2008) which provides 100 per cent coverage. For years prior to 2003 coverage is lower.""The requested data for York are attached in Annex A.""The number of full-time equivalent staff employed in Yorkshire and the Humber by government departments and executive agencies from 1996-2005 has been published by Cabinet Office and is available on-line:""http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/about/who/statistics/archived-reports.aspx""The number of full-time equivalent staff employed by government departments and their executive agencies for Yorkshire and the Humber, 2006-2008, is attached in Annex B.""The information referred to as Annex A and Annex B has been placed in the Library."