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.
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.