§ Lord McCARTHYasked Her Majesty's Government:
For each year since 1970, what were:
- (a) the number of established civil servants, broken down into the industrial and non-industrial Civil Service;
1505 - (b)the number of non-established employees in the Civil Service-e.g. temporary and part-time personnel-broken down as in (a) above;
- (c)the number of workers employed by the Civil Service on the basis of various forms of labour-only sub-contracting e.g. secretarial agencies; and
I. PERMANENT STAFF Non-Industrial Part-time staff included in column 1 as half units Industrial Part-time staff included in column 3 as half units Total of columns 1 and 3 Expenditure on wages and salaries on column 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 £ million 1st October 1970 498,709 7,253 206,480 6,603 705,189 1,175 1st October 1971 500,895 7,503 198,975 6,590 699,870 1,300 1st October 1972 500,175 7,340 190,810 5,212 690,985 1,419 1st October 1973 509,894 7,820 185,198 5,362 695,092 1,509 1st October 1974 510,314 8,519 176,868 5,716 687,182 1,840 1st October 1975 540,172 9,274 178,973 6,033 719,145 2,415* * This figure includes Summer and Winter Supplementary Estimates only.
II. CASUAL APPOINTMENTS Non-Industrial Industrial Total Expenditure £'000 1st October 1970 4,712 — 4,712 4,630 1st October 1971 9,868 — 9,868 10,125 1st October 1972 15,587 806 16,393 13,437 1st October 1973 14,647 556 15,203 14,298 1st October 1974 14,205 523 14,728 17,843 1st October 1975 13,814 486 14,300 15,835* * This figure includes Summer and Winter Supplementary Estimates only. (c)Information on the cost of agency staff before 1975 is not available. Although the information for 1975–76 is not complete the amount recorded centrally as allocated for this purpose in the Main Estimates 1975–76 is £7,861,000.
(d)The expenditure figures shown above are expressed in cash terms. I am having these figures converted to a constant price basis and I will write to the noble Lord when this has been done.