HC Deb 19 March 1990 vol 169 c486W
Mr. Oppenheim

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of the total number of staff employed by each county council in 1981–82 and in 1989–90 or the latest year for which figures are available and the percentage change in the number employed between these dates.

Mr. Chope

The information requested is as follows:

Authority Staff numbers Percentage Change
June 1981 June 1989
Avon 33,779 33,642 -0.4
Bedfordshire 20,107 19,876 -1.1
Berkshire 22,655 23,136 2.1
Buckinghamshire 20,540 21,905 6.6
Cambridgeshire 20,364 22,295 9.5
Cheshire 35,617 36,720 3.1
Cleveland 24,041 26,424 9.9
Cornwall and Scilly 13,621 15,514 13.9
Cumbria 18,192 19,029 4.6
Derbyshire 35,368 43,186 22.1
Devon 31,169 32,494 4.3
Dorset 17,777 19,524 9.8
Durham 23,488 24,690 5.1
East Sussex 22,065 21,716 -1.6
Essex 48,449 53,085 9.6
Gloucestershire 18,214 18,380 0.9
Hampshire 48,669 51,152 5.1
Hereford and Worcester 21,976 20,233 -7.9
Hertfordshire 37,894 137,667 1 -0.6
Humberside 33,229 36,026 8.4
Isle of Wight 4,134 4,211 1.9
Kent 45,903 43,040 -6.2
Lancashire 50,075 53,452 6.7
Leicestershire 28,444 33,278 17.0
Lincolnshire 17,347 17,322 -0.1
Norfolk 22,043 24,183 9.7
Northamptonshire 17,823 21,039 18.0
Northumberland 11,548 12,007 4.0
North Yorkshire 23,896 24,967 4.5
Nottinghamshire 35,332 39,028 10.5
Oxfordshire 18,604 16,796 -9.7
Shropshire 13,804 15,058 9.1
Somerset 14,572 17,546 20.4
Staffordshire 38,593 39,650 2.7
Suffolk 19,656 21,267 8.2
Surrey 28,263 26,350 -6.8
Warwickshire 17,873 18,456 3.3
West Sussex 20,039 21,693 8.3
Wiltshire 19,179 20,805 8.5
1 June 1988 data used.
Source: Joint Staffing Watch for England

The figures above are for general services only; they do not include law and order services. In some of the non-metropolitan counties the police function is carried out by a joint police authority.