§ Mr. Fairbairnasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many civil servants have been (a) declared redundant and (b) dismissed for inefficiency during the past 10 years; and what has been the increase in the establishment of the Scottish Office in the same period.
§ Mr. William RossOver the past 10 years, redundancy payments were made to some 200 Scottish Office staff for whom suitable alternative employment in the Civil Service was not available. These were, in the main, employees of the State Management Districts organisation which was wound up between 1970 and 1972, and workers on farms temporarily managed by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland. There were 15 dismissals on grounds of inefficiency.
In the same period, there was an increase of 2,254 in staff numbers, including over 1,000 in the Scottish Prison Service and the State Hospital.