Departmental Manpower
Work and Pensions
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
John Mann (Bassetlaw, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many staff there were in (a) her Department's predecessor in 1997 and (b) her Department on the latest date for which figures are available.
Helen Goodman (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions; Bishop Auckland, Labour)
The Department for Work and Pensions was formed in June 2001 when the then Department of Social Security merged with the then Employment Service and some parts of the then Department for Education and Employment.
Staffing information for the predecessor organisations in 1997 can be found in the Civil Service Statistics Report for 1997. The report is available in electronic format through the attached link:
http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/Assets/css97_tcm6-2540.pdf
The latest staffing figures which are publicly available are as at
(1) Figure does not include staff in the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission or in the Health and Safety Executive.