Speeches

Louise Haigh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-04-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many civil servants were employed at each location of the Insolvency Service in the last year for which figures are available.

Anna Soubry

As at 31 March 2016, the numbers of civil servants employed at each Insolvency Service location were as follows:

Location

Civil Servants

Location

Civil Servants

Birmingham

389

Leeds

77

Blackpool

37

Liverpool

42

Brighton

17

London

299

Bristol

35

Manchester

134

Cambridge

21

Newcastle

44

Cardiff

46

Nottingham

37

Chatham

37

Plymouth

35

Croydon

56

Reading

21

Edinburgh

36

Southampton

28

Exeter

17

Southend-on-Sea

28

Ipswich

42

Grand Total

1478

These figures do not include 15 civil servants who were on unpaid sickness absence, career break, special leave without pay or on loan to other government departments and, therefore, were not on the Insolvency Service’s payroll on 31 March 2016.