Enterprise Insight

Mr. Prisk
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff are employed by Enterprise Insight; and what the cost was of employing those staff in (i) 2004-05 and (ii) 2005-06.

Margaret Hodge
Enterprise Insight employed 45 full-time and one part-time staff.

Enterprise Insight’s operating years for the periods referred to ran as follows:

2004—1 January 2004 to 31 December 2004

2005—1 January 2005 to 31 March 2006, a 15-month period during which Enterprise Insight made the transition from a December to a March year end.

The cost of staff employed by Enterprise Insight from 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2004 was £545,344 and from 1 January 2005 to 31 March 2006 was £780,099.