Departmental Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many staff are engaged (a) full-time and (b) part-time on handling responses to his Department's consultation on home education—registration and monitoring proposals. (301898)

13 staff were engaged in handling the responses: one full-time consultation advisor throughout the whole of the consultation period; a further four full-time and two part-time staff engaged to log and analyse responses towards the end of the consultation period, when the majority of responses were received; and an additional six staff helped with the analysis on a part-time basis following closure of this consultation.