Traffic Officers

Department for Transport written question – answered at on 25 June 2015.

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Photo of Richard Burden Richard Burden Shadow Minister (Transport)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people were employed in the Highways Agency Traffic Officer Service in each year since 2010; and how many people are employed in the comparable section of Highways England.

Photo of Andrew Jones Andrew Jones Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)

The information is as follows:-

Year

Staff in Traffic Officer Service

2010

1727

2011

1676

2012

1608

2013

1516

2014

1439

2015 (Highways England)

1454

Please note we have interpreted Traffic Officer Service as Traffic Officers and support staff such as control room staff.

Note that the decrease in the number of staff in the Traffic Officer Service reflects various organisational changes which have not impacted on the operational capability of the service: such as the introduction of Flexible Rostering into the Traffic Officer Service which has meant less staff are required to operate; and a review of the Team Manager role has lead to non-operational tasks removed from the role and posts converted into non-operational roles in Service Delivery, a department not in the Traffic Officer Service.

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