§ Mr. Reidasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will publish in the Official Report the dispersal locations of
Department Location Approximate number of Posts Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food … … … Cambridge … 43 Merseyside … 1,250 Agricultural Research Council … … … Merseyside … 160 Civil Service Department … … … Sunningdale … 50 Norwich … 360 Basingstoke … 300 H.M. Customs and Excise … … … Southend … 500 Countryside Commission … … … Cheltenham … 100 Ministry of Defence … … … Bath … 154 Cardiff … 5,000 Glasgow … 6,000 Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) … … … Portsmouth … 125 Portland … 14 Department of the Environment Property Services Agency … Bristol … 1,160 Teesside … 3,000 (Plus 1,000 to be decentralised to Regional Headquarters). Export Credits Guarantee Department … … … Cardiff … 800 Foreign and Commonwealth Office … … … Merseyside … 500 Department of Health and Social Security … … … Southampton … 79 … … … Newcastle … 500 Blackpool … 980 Home Office … … … Corby … 47 Merseyside … 1,000 Inland Revenue … … … Pontypridd … 32 Leeds … 45 Manchester … 250 Department for National Savings … … … Glasgow … 2,353 Natural Environment Research Council … … … Swindon … 190 Royal Mint … … … Llantrisant … 400 Ministry of Overseas Development … … … Glasgow … 1,000 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys … … … Southport … 500 Science Research Council … … … Swindon … 380 H.M. Stationery Office … … … Norwich … 380 Departments of Trade and Industry … … … Cardiff/Newport … 1,790 West Cumbria … 360 Poole … 35 In addition, the headquarters of the Manpower Services Commission and its agencies (750) will go to Sheffield; Employment Service Agency to Basingstoke (44), Colchester (43) and Eastbourne (31), and the Training Service Agency (147) to Basingstoke.
The table does not include the headquarters of the Health and Safety Commission, or the Inland Revenue dispersal announced on 30th July 1974, on which decisions about locations have yet to be taken, or the Child Benefit Care Centre which, subject to parliamentary approval of the Child Benefit Bill, will be located at Washington New Town.
The figures given are in terms of posts, since it is not yet possible to estimate how
132WLondon Civil Service departments, transferred and projected between 1974 and 1984, giving in each case the number of staff involved.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe information is as follows:
many staff will move with posts. The figures do not include posts established or to be established under the policy of setting up new work away from London.