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Fylde

Volume 476: debated on Wednesday 21 May 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many full-time equivalent staff (a) were employed by each of his business directorates in Fylde in each of the last four years and (b) have been so employed in 2008; (205690)

(2) how many of his Department's staff working in Fylde were redeployed to Government work in another Department in (a) 2008 and (b) each of the preceding four years.

The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff employed in each business unit in Fylde in each of the last four years is shown in the following table. For 2004-07 the figure shown is the number of staff still employed at 31 December. The figure for 2008 is at 30 April 2008, the latest date for which figures are available.

Full-time equivalent staff employed in Fylde

Fylde Business Units

Staffing

December 2004

December2005

December 2006

December2007

April 2008

The Appeals Service1

FTE

0

1

0

0

0

Child Support Agency

FTE

302

294

456

382

367

Corporate and Shared Services

FTE

1,474

1,300

1,143

944

876

Disability and Carers Service

FTE

2,973

3,143

3,040

2,763

2,703

Jobcentre Plus

FTE

983

471

873

770

735

The Pensions Service

FTE

94

104

326

214

103

Total FTE2

5,826

5,314

5,839

5,073

4,784

1 The Appeals Service transferred to the Department for Constitutional Affairs from April 2006.

2 Total may not sum due to rounding

The number of the Department's staff who transferred from Fylde to Government work in another Department is shown in the following table:

Staff transferring to other Government Departments

Fylde staff transferred to OGD1

Headcount

1 January to 31 December 2004

32

1 January to 31 December 2005

18

1 January to 31 December 2006

23

1 January to 31 December 2007

24

1 January to 30 April 2008 (latest month)

4

Total

101

1 The numbers of staff transferred to OGD includes both staff redeployed and those moving on a voluntary basis. To break this information down further would be at a disproportionate cost.