Mr. Wm. Rossasked the Minister for the Civil Service what was the total number of civil servants employed in Northern Ireland at 31st December in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe numbers of non-industrial United Kingdom civil servants in post in Northern Ireland at 31st December in each of the last five years were as follows:
Year 1971 … … … 3,500 1972 … … … 3,700 1973 … … … 3,900 1974 … … … 4,000 1975 … … … 4,300 NOTE. Figures to the nearest hundred.
Comparable information about industrial civil servants is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.