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Written question asked by Bob Spink (Independent (affiliation)) on Monday, 15 June 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 17 June 2009. It was answered by Mike O'Brien (Labour) on Monday, 22 June 2009 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Manpower

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) directors, (b) senior managers, (c) specialist and delivery managers and (d) executive support and administration staff there were in each Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency office in each of the last five years.
Answer

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is unable to categorise staff in accordance with the occupational groups requested. The majority of the Agency's staff are based in its London office. The following figures represent the total staff figures in accordance with their Civil Service grades. Generally speaking executive and support staff are within the Administrative Officer and Executive Officer grade. The most senior managers and senior specialists are within the Senior Civil Service grade. Also included in the Senior Civil Service figure are 10 Directors.

Staff in post as per 31 March year ending
Grade 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Administrative Officer 173 139 134 126 126
Executive Officer 157 163 195 211 230
Higher Executive Officer 70 71 65 79 84
Senior Executive Officer 165 188 189 193 196
Grade 7 83 94 107 106 111
Grade 6 65 66 74 87 98
Senior Civil Servants 72 84 99 100 106
Grand Total 795 815 873 912 961

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
494 c727W; 280612
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Staff Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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