§ Mr. Bodyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 199W what the number of non-industrial civil servants employed in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in total, and in the Passport Office, including its branches of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and in the Information Administration Department, the Information Policy Department, and the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, respectively, on 18th June, 1970; and how many were so employed on 18th June, 1972.
§ Mr. GodberThe nearest dates to those requested for which I can give figures are 1st July, 1970, and 1st April, 1972. As the information departments in the200W Foreign and Commonwealth Office were re-organised between these two dates I have combined the totals for the three departments.
The numbers of non-industrial civil servants on those dates were as follows:
1st July, 1970 1st April,1972 Foreign and Commonwealth Office 3,106 3,021 Passport Office 746 768 Information Administration Department 217 155 Information Policy Department Information Research Department