asked the Secretary of State for Wales what, in the form most readily available, is the geographic distribution of the home addresses of the people who have attended the Skillcentre at Llanelli over the past five years.

The latest available information relates to the period January 1975 to December 1979 and is as follows:

Date	Information officer	Number of staff Supporting staff	Total
1 January 1975	16	12	28
1 January 1976	19	13	32
1 January 1977	20	14	34
1 January 1978	21	15	36
1 January 1979	22	16	38

The corresponding details for 1 January 1980 were 23 information officers and 14 supporting staffThe increase in numbers since 1975 is due to the substantial extension of the functions of the Welsh Office in this period. The information officer group in the Welsh Office, in addition to press and public relations officers, includes officers engaged upon Welsh language translation, exhibitions, publications, tours and work in connection with film and photographic libraries.