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Maintenance expenditure includes all maintenance costs e.g. structural maintenance (includes resurfacing, reconstruction, surface dressing, patching etc.), routine maintenance (grassing, cutting, gully emptying and environmental work), traffic management, street lighting and car park maintenance costs.

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people were employed by the DRD Roads Service in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years, broken down by grade. [97633]

David Cairns: 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.

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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	(1)1,487		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.

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