Departments: Manpower

Mr. Heald
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many staff funded by the public purse in the Central Office of Information are classified as people without posts.

Hilary Armstrong
The Central Office of Information has no staff classified as people without posts.

Mr. Heald
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 21 May 2007, Official Report, column 1122W, on Departments: manpower, what the estimated annual cost is to the public purse of employing the members of staff without posts.

Hilary Armstrong
All members of staff in the Department’s Priority Talent Pool are engaged in work to deliver the Department’s business objectives to ensure that there is no additional cost to the public purse.