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Research Development and Statistics Directorate

Volume 477: debated on Tuesday 17 June 2008

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Mr. Ruffley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were employed in her Department's Research Development and Statistics Directorate in each year since 1997; and what the Directorate's budget was in each of those years. (200357)

Meg Hillier

The available information on budgets and numbers of staff in the social research and statistics teams since 1997 is shown in the following table. Please note that since 2004 the Research and Statistics teams have been embedded within each Home Office business area rather than within a single Research, Development and Statistics Directorate.

Research development and statistics teams -staff in post

Social science budgets in the Home Office (£million)

1997-98

239

—

1998-99

1—

6.3

1999-2000

1—

5.8

2000-01

356

28.3

2001-02

398

29.4

2002-03

386

40.1

2003-04

447

32.2

2004-05

422

32.1

2005-06

399

38.2

2006-07

276

25.2

2007-08

207

15.8

1 Not separately available. Notes: 1. The source of the staff in post figures are form 1997-98 and 2003-4 Home Office Annual Reports, from 2004-5-2006-7 returns to the Office of National Statistics. 2. 2006-7 figures exclude staff and resources transferring to DCLG. 2007-08 figures exclude staff and resources that transferred to Ministry of Justice in May 2007. 3. 1997-98 to 2005-6 budget figures for are Social Science and Statistics budget estimates— for 2006-7 the figures are budget outturn for embedded RDS teams.