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Mr. Fisher
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many civil servants in his Department work (a) full time and (b) part time on marine archaeology.
Mr. Atkins
The Department of Transport's only responsibility concerning marine archaeology is through its administration of the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, on which five of the Department's civil servants work for a part of their time, amounting in total to about1/2 man/year per annum.