Maritime and Coastguard Agency (Correction)

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Paul Clark)
I regret to inform the House that the answer I gave on 8 July to a parliamentary question, Official Report, column 802W, about the breakdown of staff employed at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) was incorrect.

The MCA has checked the figures and the answer should read:

The number of staff employed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), broken down into the categories asked, since 2002 is shown in the table. The MCA’s systems only hold records back to 2002:

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|                         |2002|2003|2004|2005|2006|2007|2008|
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|Surveyors                |173 |177 |188 |194 |190 |192 |181 |
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|Coastguard Control Centre|537 |515 |531 |545 |534 |532 |501 |
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|Administrative           |386 |411 |423 |473 |467 |472 |422 |
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|Human Resources          |47  |55  |50  |57  |58  |58  |54  |
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Administrative staff includes, for example, Senior Managers and Policy Leads as well as Administrators.