§ Mr. David ShawTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the(a) population, (b) number of employees, (c) number of employees per 1,000 population and (d) political party in control in each local authority; and if he will post the answer on his Department's pages on the Government's world wide web server,"www.open.gov.uk".
§ Mr. RedwoodThe latest available information is shown in the following table. Local authority staffing figures are maintained by the Local Government Management Board. There are currently no arrangements for providing the information in the way requested.
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Population, number of staff employed and political control of each local authority in Wales Population1 (000s) Total Staff Staff per 1,000 population Political control County Councils Clwyd 416 14,041 33.8 LAB Dyfed 352 14,733 41.9 IND Gwent 450 17,988 39.9 LAB Gwynedd 240 9,342 38.9 IND Mid Glamorgan 544 21,578 39.6 LAB Powys 120 3— 3— IND South Glamorgan 413 14,531 35.2 LAB West Glamorgan 371 14,109 38.0 LAB Borough/District Councils Aberconwy 54 483 8.9 NOC Alyn and Deeside 75 601 8.0 LAB Arfon 57 561 9.9 PC Blaenau Gwent 77 1,119 14.5 LAB Brecknock 42 251 6.0 IND Cardiff 299 3,630 12.2 LAB Carmarthen 56 454 8.1 IND Ceredigion 69 559 8.1 IND Colwyn 57 465 8.2 LDEM Cynon Valley 65 634 9.7 LAB Delyn 70 661 9.4 IND Dinefwr 39 246 6.4 LAB Dwyfor 27 258 9.5 IND Glyndwr 42 345 8.2 IND Islwyn 67 736 11.0 LAB Llanelli 74 732 9.9 LAB Lliw Valley 65 568 8.8 LAB Meirionnydd 33 349 10.7 PC Merthyr Tydfil 60 771 12.9 LAB Monmouth 78 570 7.3 CON Montgomeryshire 54 460 8.5 IND Neath 66 626 9.5 LAB Newport 137 1,426 10.4 LAB Ogwr 135 1,259 9.3 LAB Port Talbot 51 533 10.4 LAB Preseli Pembroke 71 585 8.3 IND Radnorshire 24 207 8.5 IND Rhondda 78 975 12.4 LAB Rhuddlan 55 495 9 IND Rhymney Valley 104 1,188 11.4 LAB South Pembroke 43 331 7.7 IND Swansea 189 2,528 13.4 LAB Taff Ely 101 804 7.9 LAB Torfaen 91 905 10.0 LAB Vale of Glamorgan 115 868 7.6 LAB Wrexham Maelor 117 1,297 11.1 LAB Ynys Mon 69 536 7.7 IND 1 OPCS 1993 mid-year estimate.2 Joint staffing watch data, June 1994 (provisional) except for Aberconwy (March 1993 figure) and Cynon Valley (March 1994 provisional figure); number of persons, full or part-time, in general services (excluding law or order). 3 —denotes data not available for 1993 or 1994.