Cabinet Office written question – answered on 3rd April 2003.
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office
(1) if he will make a statement on the Government's plans to change (a) the level of staffing and (b) the role of the Office of the e-Envoy;
(2) how many staff have worked in the Office of the e-Envoy in each month since its establishment;
(3) if he will make a statement on the work of the Office of the e-Envoy since its establishment.
The Office of the e-Envoy was established in September 1999. The following table shows how many staff have worked in the Office of the e-Envoy in each month since this date. All figures are rounded to full-time equivalents (FTE) . The Office of the e-Envoy business plan for the 2003–04 financial year assumes an average of 122 FTE staff.
Last November, the Office of the e-Envoy published its third UK online annual report. The report provides a comprehensive summary of the work of the Office and makes recommendations for future activity.
It also highlighted the results of an independent e-economy benchmarking study which found the UK to be second only to the USA in terms of its environment for e-commerce.
The E-Minister, Patricia Hewitt and the e-Envoy, Andrew Pinder also provide a monthly update to the PM outlining activity.
Copies of the annual and monthly reports are available in the Library of the House, from the Office of the e-Envoy and online at www.e-envoy.gov.uk.
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
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April | — | 54 | 111 | 142 |
May | — | 56 | 123 | 138 |
June | — | 56 | 125 | 141 |
July | — | 54 | 129 | 140 |
August | — | 52 | 128 | 134 |
September | 2 | 56 | 138 | 139 |
October | 4 | 57 | 146 | 140 |
November | 6 | 60 | 147 | 144 |
December | 10 | 60 | 145 | 145 |
January | 12 | 62 | 148 | 141 |
February | 51 | 71 | 145 | 141 |
March | 53 | 92 | 143 | 138 |
Note:
Figures are full-time equivalents rounded to nearest whole number.
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