asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will set out in tabular form for 1 April 1985 and 1 April 1986 the total number of staff in post in the Directorate General of Design Services; and whether he will break those figures down into Civil Service grades, indicating also the number of persons trained in relevant professional disciplines.

The number of staff in post in the Directorate General of Design Services on 1 April 1985 and 1 April 1986 was as follows:

	1 April 1985	1 April 1986
Grade 2	1	1
Grade 3	1	—
Grade 4	3	4
Grade 5	6	6
Grade 6	15	19
Grade 7	69	79
Professional and Technology Group	299	308
Science Group	2	1
Administrative Group	94	107
Secretarial and other staff	26	25
	514	550
Professionally qualified staff comprised:
Architects and Landscape Architects	45	54
Civil Engineers	56	59
Mechanical and Electrical Engineers	55	49
Quantity Surveyors	40	50
Building Surveyors	11	17
Land Surveyors	4	4
Other staff with scientific or technical qualifications	183	184

The figures for 1 April 1986 include 23 staff in the students training office transferred from the Directorate of Civil Accommodation to the design office in 1985–86.