To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) contact staff, (b) processing staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) staff in total were employed by the Security Industry Authority in each month since January 2003.

Call centre contact staff and general processing staff are not directly employed by the SIA. Employee details are published each year in the SIA's annual report. The reports for 2003-04 to 2006-07 can be viewed on the SIA's website at:

http://www.the-sia.org.uk/home/about_sia/publications/publications_financial.htm

Copies are also available in the House of Commons Library.

Details of the position at the end of the last two financial years are set out in the following table.