Speeches

Pamela Nash – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time and part-time staff were employed to work in the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which records are available.

Jenny Willott

The numbers of full-time and part-time staff that have been employed by the Illegal Money Lending Units in Scotland, England and Wales over the last four years are as follows:

Full-Time

Part-Time (full time equivalents)

Financial Years

England

Wales

Scotland

Wales

2014/15

58

7

8

1.9

2013/14

63

7

8

1.9

2012/13

63

7

8

1.6

2011/12

50

6

8

0.8

2010/11

Unavailable

9

8

0.8

Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.