The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.Letter from Jil Matheson, dated October 2009:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many full-time equivalent staff were employed in each department and agency of the Civil Service in 1996-97. (290136)""The number of full-time equivalent staff employed by each government department and agency in 1996-7 has been published by Cabinet Office and is available in hardcopy from the House of Commons Library.""An online edition of Civil Service Statistics 1997 is available at:""http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/Assets/css97_tcm6-2540.pdf"