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Jobcentre Plus: Manpower

Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people have been employed by Jobcentre Plus in each year since 1 April 2002, broken down by (a) region and (b) pay grade. [230288]

Mr. McNulty: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the acting chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, Mel Groves. I have asked him to provide the hon. Member with the information requested.

Letter from Mel Groves:


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Full-time equivalents in Jobcentre Plus by pay grade from April 2003 to March 2007
Grade April 2003 March 2004 March 2005 March 2006 March 2007

SCS

54.83

52

52

41

57.92

Grade 6

152.57

157.65

151.78

142.59

142.86

Grade 7

340.18

388.46

382.97

338.55

358.73

SEO

1,073.16

1,329.55

1,352.82

1,185.07

1,129.34

HEO

3,649.77

4,341.07

4,238.85

3,741.58

3,841.83

EO

28,775.81

29,113.26

28105.85

26,730.43

25,594.83

AO

41,384.53

39,091.56

35,860.46

35,151.11

33,762.07

AA

7,473.05

5,623.22

4,329.74

3,891.09

3,057.99

Total

82,903.9

80,096.77

74,474.47

71,221.42

67,945.57


Full-time equivalents in Jobcentre Plus by pay grade and region for March 2008
Grade East Midlands East of England London North East North West Scotland

SCS

1

2

13

2

9.92

0

Band G/G6

8

7

15

7

30

8.9

Band F/G7

12

12.97

41.22

15.88

69.1

12.5

Band E/SEO

50.01

57.25

133.4

49.44

154.83

89.17

Band D/HEO

222.1

220.32

491.98

227.1

570.12

352.59

Band C/EO

1,562.39

1,614.8

3,671.09

1,633.57

3,916.5

2,860.89

Band B/AO

2,316.32

2,165.9

2,925.12

2,218.01

5,382.62

4,030.13

Band A / AA

169.74

121.6

116.61

160.12

527.95

422.1

Total

4,341.56

4,201.84

7,407.42

4,313.12

10,661.04

7,776.28


Full-time equivalents in Jobcentre Plus by pay grade and region for March 2008
Grade South East South West Wales West Midlands Yorkshire & Humberside Not known

SCS

2

1

1

2

16.97

—

Band G/G6

8

6

7

9.99

36.7

—

Band F/G7

15.41

10

11.93

20.95

123.03

—

Band E/SEO

67.33

51.36

59.61

84.55

270.71

(1)2

Band D/HEO

277.89

230.46

205.77

323.9

635.86

(1)2

Band C/EO

2,000.27

1,637.54

1,506.95

2,379.68

2,662.76

(1)4

Band B/AO

2,536.35

2,206.5

2,595.64

3,324.61

3,368.33

—

Band A/AA

210.45

132.18

174.35

245.57

245.89

—

Total

5,117.7

4,275.04

4,562.25

6,391.25

7,360.25

(1)8

(1 )The Management Information Portal does not contain information on the regional location of all staff
Notes:
1. Data for March 2008 is provided from “Dataview”, an electronic extract from Resource Management. This information is not available for previous years due to data capacity issues.
3. Headcount figures are quoted in full-time equivalents using the Office for National Statistics criteria for counting headcount and details the position at March in each year. Source:
Jobcentre Plus Management Information Portal. For data capacity reasons the portal only provides information from April 2003 onwards.

Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) how many (a) Jobcentre Plus staff and (b) customer-facing Jobcentre Plus staff there were (i) in total, (ii) in each region and (iii) in each Jobcentre Plus district in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement; [230432]

(2) how many (a) Jobcentre Plus staff and (b) customer-facing Jobcentre Plus staff there are (i) in total, (ii) in each region and (iii) in each Jobcentre Plus district; and if he will make a statement. [230433]

Mr. McNulty: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the acting Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus, Mel Groves. I have asked him to provide the hon. Member with the information requested.

Letter from Mel Groves:


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Total Jobcentre Plus staff by region and district at September 2008
Region District Total

East Midlands

Derbyshire

1,443.61

Leicestershire and Northamptonshire

1,127.23

Lincolnshire and Rutland

629.85

Nottinghamshire

1,265.84

East Midlands Total

4,466.53

East of England

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

1,003.42

Cambridgeshire and Suffolk

1,288.23

Essex

1,367.15

Norfolk

723.54

East of England Total

4,382.34

London

Central London

984.38

City and East London

1,574.87

Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth

1,052.08

North and North East London

1,644.94

South London

1,195.63

West London

1,049.62

London Total

7,501.52

North East

Northumbria

1,548.39

South Tyne and Wear Valley

1,395.45

Tees Valley

1,368

North East Total

4,311.84

North West

Cheshire and Warrington

534.58

Cumbria

541.74

Greater Manchester Central

1,532.07

Greater Manchester East and West

2,650.65

Greater Mersey

1,030.77

Lancashire

1,987.77

Liverpool and Wirral

1,912

Unknown(1)

133.49

North West Total

10,323.07

Scotland

Ayrshire, Dumfries, Galloway and Inverclyde

981.51

Edinburgh and Lothian and Borders

845.33

Forth Valley, Fife and Tayside

1,286.26

Glasgow

2,539.64

Highland, Islands and Clyde Coast and Grampian

1,450.53

Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire

819.1

Scotland Total

7,922.37

South East

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

941.55

Hampshire

1,370.3

Kent

1,455.74

Surrey and Sussex

1,507.32

South East Total

5,274.91

South West

Devon and Cornwall

1,800.71

Dorset and Somerset

850.06

Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Swindon

725.95

West of England

979.44

South West Total

4,356.16

Wales

North and Mid Wales

1,164.02

South East Wales

1,083.91

South Wales Valleys

1,362.6

South West Wales

997.06

Wales Total

4,607.59

West Midlands

Birmingham and Solihull

2,212.12

Black Country

1,539.3

Coventry and Warwickshire

659.08

Staffordshire

1,082.94

The Marches

1,024.73

West Midlands Total

6,518.17

Yorkshire and The Humber

North and East Yorkshire and The Humber

1,708.76

South Yorkshire

2,536.31

West Yorkshire

2,938.37

Yorkshire and The Humber Total

7,183.44

Unknown(1)

127.21

Unknown Total

127.21

Jobcentre Plus staff total

66,975.15

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