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Departments: Manpower

Volume 461: debated on Friday 15 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her Department's directorates are; and how many (a) individuals and (b) full-time equivalent staff work in them. (137292)

The individual and full-time equivalent breakdown for each of the Department's directorates, as at 30 April 2007, is shown in the following table.

Directorate

Number of individuals

Number of full time equivalents

Clinical Programmes

67

61.6

Commercial

5

4.6

Commissioning

264

257.4

Communications

107

105.4

Connecting for Health

29

28.5

Departmental Management

596

583.0

Equality and Human Rights1

24

22.7

Experience Involvement and Professional Leadership

75

72.9

Finance and Investment

215

208.6

Health and Care Partnerships

94

92.3

Health Improvement2

203

196.4

Healthcare Quality

51

48.2

Health Protection, International Health and Scientific Development

149

145.9

Policy and Strategy

137

133.5

Provider Development

44

43.0

Research and Development

55

51.0

Social Care

72

68.5

Workforce

106

101.2

1 Headed by a Director rather than a Director General.

2 Includes Regional Public Health Groups.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff funded by the public purse in her Department are classified as people without posts. (137668)

The Department currently has 47 people not in permanent posts but carrying out meaningful work across the organisation until a permanent post can be identified to which they are then deployed.