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Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Manpower

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 8 July 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) surveyors, (b) Coastguard Control Centre staff, (c) administrative staff and (d) human resources staff the Maritime and Coastguard Agency employed in each of the last 10 years. (282930)

The number of staff employed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), broken down into the categories asked, since 2002 is shown in the following table. The MCA's systems only hold records back to 2002:

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Surveyors

173

177

188

194

190

192

181

Coastguard Control Centre

537

515

531

545

534

468

438

Administrative

386

411

423

473

467

536

485

Human Resources

47

55

50

57

58

58

54

Administrative staff includes, for example, senior managers and policy leads as well as administrators.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) directors, (b) senior managers, (c) specialist and delivery managers and (d) executive support and administration staff there were in each Maritime and Coastguard Agency office in each of the last five years. (285538)

The number of directors at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been three from August 2008. Prior to that, in each of the last five years, the number of directors was five.

The information for (b) to (d) is not available in the format requested.