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Civil Servants

Volume 448: debated on Tuesday 4 July 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many staff there are in the Northern Ireland civil service. (77352)

The number of staff (permanent and temporary) working in the 11 Northern Ireland Departments and the NIO, including agencies, at 1 April 2006 was as follows:

Permanent

Temporary

Total

11 NI Departments

26,724

483

27,207

NIO1

1,925

56

1,981

Total

28,649

539

29,188

1 NIO figures exclude home civil service staff, PSNI, Youth Justice Agency non-admin staff, and uniformed Prison Service staff.