All board members’ contracts expire on 31 October 2009. We will announce our decision on future board appointments after we have completed a review of the unit later this month.
The National Housing and Planning Advice Unit has employed the following full-time equivalent staff1 over each of the last three years:
1 Assumes permanent civil service staff only, excludes two temporary staff for part of period.
Number October 20061 to March 2007 1.42 April 2007—March 2008 12.25 April 2008—March 2009 12.66 April 2009—current 12.8 1 NHPAU established and first started incurring staff salary costs in October 2006.
In addition, the unit also currently has six board members who work for the unit for up to a maximum of 30 days per year each.
A review of the unit began in August and is expected to conclude shortly.