§ Mr. Ralph HowellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Enironment if he will state the number of persons and whole-time equivalents employed by each county council for March 1979, March 1988 and projected March 1989; and if he will also give the overall totals for the United Kingdom for each of these years.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe information is as follows:
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March 1979 March 1988 Non-Met Counties Full-time Part-time Total Staff Full-time Part-time Total Staff Derbyshire 18,480 17,355 35,835 19,703 24,442 44,145 Devon 19,074 14,062 33,136 17,503 15,522 33,025 Dorset 10,861 8,360 19,221 10,015 9,884 19,899 Durham 16,118 8,769 24,887 14,447 9,480 23,927 East Sussex 12,026 11,995 24,021 11,498 11,023 22,521 Essex 26,088 27,036 53,124 23,769 29,331 53,100 Gloucestershire 10,668 8,816 19,484 9,666 8,238 17,904 Hampshire 27,453 26,534 53,987 24,854 28,510 53,364 Hereford and Worcester 12,299 10,176 22,475 11,538 8,601 20,139 Hertfordshire 19,599 19,042 38,641 17,476 20,153 37,629 Humberside 19,267 16,194 35,461 18,556 19,949 38,505 Isle of Wight 2,481 2,015 4,496 2,425 1,709 4,134 Kent 27,672 25,820 53,492 24,061 20,528 44,589 Lancashire 29,415 22,426 51,841 29,184 25,202 54,386 Leicestershire 18,883 12,374 31,257 18,342 16,736 35,078 Lincolnshire 11,095 9,364 20,459 9,455 7,537 16,992 Norfolk 12,814 10,419 23,233 11,469 12,627 24,096 Northamptonshire 1 1 1 10,197 11,614 21,811 Northumberland 7,438 4,569 11,999 6,596 5,467 12,063 North Yorkshire 12,861 11,962 24,823 11,834 13,511 25,345 Nottinghamshire 22,856 15,604 38,460 22,273 18,637 40,910 Oxfordshire 9,953 9,876 19,829 9,331 9,780 19,111 Shropshire 7,828 6,392 14,220 7,218 7,666 14,884 Somerset 7,743 7,927 15,670 8,029 9,300 17,329 Staffordshire 22,176 17,796 39,972 19,850 19,879 39,729 Suffolk 10,033 10,632 20,665 9,649 11,994 21,643 Surrey 17,581 16,284 33,865 14,437 13,126 27,563 Warwickshire 9,123 9,295 18,418 8,179 10,244 18,423 West Sussex 9,940 11,744 21,684 9,787 11,922 21,709 Wiltshire 9,792 9,815 19,607 9,164 11,975 21,139 Totals English Non-Met Counties 570,225 493,464 1,063,689 533,697 537,603 1,071,300 All English Authorities 1,460,594 882,065 2,282,659 1,373,068 966,442 2,339,510 (Full-time Equivalent) (1,803,988) (1,749,809) 1 Data not available. 2 Excludes law and order services. Full-time equivalent numbers are not collected centrally at individual authority level. They are estimated at the aggregate level by applying national factors to broad groups of employees. Manpower projections are not made for future years. Local authority manpower statistics for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively are the responsibilities of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.