(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.
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:
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.