Departmental Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of her Department’s staff are employed in the (a) Programme and Project Management Support Unit, (b) Reform and Change Team, (c) Strategic Policy Team, (d) Delivery Unit and (e) Reform Programme Office of the Strategy and Reform Directorate; and how many are employed in the Directorate in total. (247826)

The following table provides the total number of staff employed by the Strategy and Reform Directorate and the specific directorates requested in the question.

	Headcount as at 31 December 2008
Total staff headcount¹ in Strategy and Reform Directorate	99
Which includes:
(a) Programme and Project Management Support Unit	18
(b) Reform Team²	11
(c) Strategic Policy Team	25
(d) Delivery Unit	10
¹ Headcount includes permanent and non-permanent staff (contractors, non-paid contractors, agency) and non-active staff. ² Merge of Reform and Change Team with Reform Programme Office.

Volume 486: debated on Wednesday 21 January 2009