§ Mr. Strangasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Civil Service jobs have been lost in each region in Scotland in each of the past four years.
§ Mr. HayhoeThe following table shows the changes in numbers of non-industrial civil servants by region and industrial civil servants in total for Scotland for the calendar years 1979, 1980 and 1981 and for 1982 up to 1 October, the latest date for which regional figures are available. Reductions are indicated with a negative sign and reflect losses of all kinds offset by recruitment. The reductions are differences between successive staff-in-post figures since no data about staff complements in Scotland are collected centrally. No regional breakdown of industrial staff is available.
Civil Service in Scotland: Changes in staff-in-post* 1979 1980 1981 1982† Non-industrial staff: Highlands -33 -2 -11 -28 Grampian -76 +47 +24 -57 Tayside -10 +98 -22 -156 Fife -62 -56 -39 -84 Lothian -447 -273 -334 -558 Borders -7 +50 -53 +13 Central +56 +48 -17 -30 Strathclyde -769 -29 -10 -662 Dumfries and Galloway -20 +50 -7 -59 Isles -12 — -4 -8 Total non-industrial staff -1,380 -67 -473 -1,629 Industrial staff -368 -225 -762 -489 Total -1,748 -292 -1,235 -2,118 * Full-time equivalent. † To 1 October.