§ Mr. Gwynfor Evansasked the Minister for the Civil Service what are the numbers and ranks of civil servants whose service is available to the main Opposition party; and what is their cost in 1977 to public funds.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThere are four civil servants employed in the Office of the Chief Whip of the main Opposition Party—three office assistants and one chief clerk/superintendent. The cost to public funds in 1977 is £27,017.
Department Cash Block Percentage Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food … … MAFF1 79.0 Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce … … IBAP1 31.0 Cabinet Office … … CO1 91.0 Central Office of Information … … CO11 97.0 Charity Commission … … CC1 94.0 Customs and Excise … … CE1 89.0 Department of Education and Science … … DES1 80.0 Department of Employment (including DE, ACAS, HSE) … … DE1 77.0 Department of Energy … … DEN1 81.0 Department of the Environment … … DOE1 82.0 Department of the Environment (Property Services Agency) … … DOE3 62.0 Exchequer and Audit Department … … EA1 88.0 Export Credits Guarantee Department … … ECGD1 90.0 Office of Fair Trading … … OFT1 70.0 Foreign and Commonwealth Office … … FCO1 55.0 Forestry Commission … … FC1 93.0 Friendly Societies Registry … … FSR1 86.0 Government Actuaries Department … … GAD1 94.0 Department of Health and Social Security … … DHSS1 58.0 Home Office … … HO1 81.0 Department of Industry … … DI1 84.0 Inland Revenue … … IR1 88.0 Land Registry … … LR1 80.0 Lord Chancellor's Department … … LCD1 70.0 Department for National Savings … … DNS1 47.0 Northern Ireland Office … … NIO1 86.0 Overseas Development, Ministry of … … ODM1 63.0 Parliamentary and Health Service Commissioner … … PCHC1 86.0 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys … … OPCS1 98.0 Ordnance Survey … … OS1 68.0 Department of Prices and Consumer Protection … … DPCP1 82.0 Privy Council Office … … PCO1 88.0 Public Record Office … … PRO1 86.0 Public Trustee Office … … PTO1 86.0 Her Majesty's Stationery Office … … HMSO1 47.0 Department of Trade … … DOT1 84.0 Department of Transport … … DTP1 57.0 HM Treasury … … HMT1 62.0 Treasury Solicitor … … TS1 90.0 Scottish Office … … SO1 94.0 Scottish Courts Administration … … SCA1 80.0 Department of Registers of Scotland … … DRS1 83.0 Queens and Lord Treasurers Remembrancer … … QLTR1 92.0 Register General's Office (Scotland) … … RGO(S)1 83.0 Scottish Record Office … … SRO1 83.0 Welsh Office … … WO1 76.0 In the case of the Crown Estate Office (CEO1), National Debt Office (NDO1), and Public Works Loan Commission