Departments: Manpower Norman Baker To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many people were employed by his Department and its predecessor on 1 January in each of the last five years; and how many of these staff were (a) permanent employees, (b) temporary staff and (c) contractors. Mr. Thomas The average number of people employed by the predecessor to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, in each of the last five years, is as follows: ----------------------------------------- | |Civil servants permanent|Others| ----------------------------------------- |2002-03|4130 |29 | ----------------------------------------- |2003-04|3750 |456 | ----------------------------------------- |2004-05|3846.5 |419 | ----------------------------------------- |2005-06|3302.4 |211.4 | ----------------------------------------- |2006-07|3085.5 |134 | -----------------------------------------