Civil Service (Cost)

HC Deb 29 June 1976 vol 914 c89W

Mr. O'Halloran

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the cost of the Civil Service in each of the last five years.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

I presume that my hon. Friend is referring to the Northern Ireland Civil Service, for which I am responsible. The cost of salaries of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, which consists now of some 22,500 non-industrial and some 11,000 industrial staff, was as follows:

					(£ million at 1975 PES prices)
1971–72	…	…	…	…	42.5
1972–73	…	…	…	…	45.7
1973–74	…	…	…	…	60.3
1974–75	…	…	…	…	74.8
1975–76	…	…	…	…	85.9

These figures naturally reflect the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland and the absorption of employees from local government into the Civil Service from 1st October 1973.