Information Officers

Mr. Freud
asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in the Official Report the number and the average cost of information officers employed by his Department at the beginning of each of the last four years.

Mr. Humphrey Atkins
The number and cost of information officers in the Northern Ireland Office and the Northern Ireland Departments for each of the last four years and for the current year is as follows:— ----------------
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|1 January 1980|
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|1 January 1979|
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|1 January 1978|
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|1 January 1977|
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|1 January 1976|
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