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Roads Service

Answer

The Chief Executive of Roads Service (Dr. Malcolm McKibbin) has written to the hon. Lady in response to this question.Letter from Dr. Malcolm McKibbin, dated 20 October 2006:"You recently asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland a Parliamentary Question regarding how many people were employed by the DRD Roads Service in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years, broken down by grade.""I have been asked to reply as these issues fall within my responsibility as Chief Executive of Roads Service.""The tables attached at Annex 1 detail the number of industrial and non-industrial Roads Service staff employed in each of the last five years.""I hope this information is helpful."

Annex 1: Non industrial staff (permanent)
	Staff in post as at April:
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Admin
Chief Executive	2	1	1	1	1
Director (G5)	2	2	2	2	2
Principal Officer (G7)	5	8	9	9	10
Deputy Principal	25	24	27	27	28
Staff Officer	32	36	40	39	42
Executive Officer I	38	46	46	54	53
Executive Officer II	51	53	62	65	63
Admin. Officer	173	184	181	180	181
Admin. Assistant	90	86	94	91	93
Sub total	418	440	462	468	473
Professional and Technical
Director	2	2	2	2	2
DRM eastern (G5)	1	1	1	1	0
DDRM eastern (G6)	0	0	1	1	1
Head of Bus Unit (G6)	3	4	4	4	4
DRM (G6)	0	4	3	3	3
PPTO	36	38	40	39	36
SPTO	102	108	112	113	116
HPTO	177	190	212	213	202
Graduate Trainee	17	17	15	10	7
PTO	344	335	349	392	415
TCEA	26	24	31	19	8
Tech Grade 1 Trainee	9	20	14	1	0
Tech Grade 1	20	26	36	34	44
Tech Grade 1 (DOA)	9	6	6	6	6
Tech Grade 2	0	182	230	227	232
Tech Grade 2 (Tracer)	2	2	2	2	2
COW	7	6	6	0	0
Sub total	755	965	1,064	1,067	1,078
Support
Typing Manager	4	3	3	2	2
Personal Secretary	12	13	13	13	12
Typist	36	35	34	32	31
Supt Office Manager	1	1	1	1	1
Ass Supt Office Man.	1	1	1	1	1
Supt Manager 3	1	1	1	1	0
SGB1	2	2	2	2	2
SGB2	26	26	23	22	25
Sub total	83	82	78	74	74
Total	1,256	¹1,487	1,604	1,609	1,625
¹ A total of 191 posts were re-graded from industrial to non-industrial staff in April 2003 for operational reasons.

Non industrial staff (temporary)
	Staff in post as at April:
Admin	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Administrative Assistant	17	6	3	4	5
Professional and Technical	0	0	0	0	0
Support	0	0	0	0	0
Total	17	6	3	4	5

Industrial staff
	Staff in post as at April:
	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Craft	73	57	48	51	47
Non craft	865	685	655	612	632
Total	938	742	703	663	678

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

451 c200-2W; 97633

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Northern Ireland Roads

Link

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