Lord Laird
Non-affiliated
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many staff were employed in the Northern Ireland Office on 1 January in each of the last ten years.
Baroness Randerson
Lords Spokesperson (Northern Ireland Office), The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales
Because of the devolution of policing and justice functions on 12 April 2010, and subsequent reconfiguration of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), the NIO does not hold figures for the periods prior to 2010; attempting to obtain this information would incur disproportionate cost.
The figures below are taken from the NIO annual report and accounts for 2010/11 to 2013/14 and show both directly employed and seconded staff working in the core NIO.
Reporting Years | Number of Directly Employed Staff | Number of Seconded Staff | Overall Staff Numbers |
2010/11 | 79 | 85 | 164 |
2011/12 | 85 | 69 | 154 |
2012/13 | 93 | 72 | 165 |
2013/14 | 101 | 62 | 163 |
2015* | 103 | 30 | 133 |
* The 2015 figure is as of 22 January 2015.
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