To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the cost to public funds in each of the past five years of the investigation of all complaints by the Commissioner for Complaints, the Fair Employment Agency and the Equal Opportunities Commission regarding the selection or promotion of lecturing staff in further education colleges.
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could be compiled only at disproportionate cost.
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many complaints relating to the selection or promotion of lecturing staff in further education colleges were investigated by (a) the Commissioner for Complaints, (b) the Fair Employment Agency and (c) the Equal Opportunities Commission, in each of the past five years; and how many of these complaints were upheld.
The available information is as follows
| Northern Ireland commissioner for complaints | Fair employment agency | |||
| Investigated | Upheld | Investigated | Upheld | |
| 1983 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 1984 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 1986 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 0 |
| 1 This information is not available in advance of the laying before Parliament of the 1987 annual report of the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints. The report is due to be laid in May 1988. | ||||
| 2 Two pending. | ||||