National Bee Unit: Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many people were employed in the National Bee Unit at the Central Science Laboratory in each of the last five years for which records are available. (142280)

The number of people employed in the Central Science Laboratory National Bee Unit in the last five years is as follows:

Financial year	Numbers of staff	FTE
2002-03	51	30.53
2003-04	51	32.12
2004-05	50	27.36
2005-06	48	24.34
2006-07	54	27.12
2007-08	48	27.64
Notes: 1. FTE is full time equivalents. Numbers of staff are expressed as FTEs as a number of the NBU staff including inspectors work seasonally or part-time during the course of the year. 2. Data for 2007-08 are forecast figures.

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007