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Mr. Cousins
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list by standard region (a) the research institutes operated for, or on behalf of, his Department and the total employment thereat and (b) the total number of such institutes and the total employment therein; and if he will express the regional totals as a percentage of the national totals.
Mr. John Wakeham
My Department is responsible for one such institute: The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority which operates from nine sites as follows:
| Region | Number of sites | Numbers employed, end-1991 | Region as per cent. Of national total employed |
| Scotland | 1 | 1,650 | 18.4 |
| North | 1 | 512 | 5.7 |
| North West | 3 | 1,594 | 17.8 |
| South East | 3 | 3,912 | 43.6 |
| South West | 1 | 1,301 | 14.5 |
| TOTAL | 9 | 8,969 | 100.0 |