§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the total number of civil servants employed by(a) his Department, (b) the agencies under his Departments responsibility and (c) public and other bodies under his Departments responsibility, for each year since 1979, divided into (1) full-time equivalents, (2) overtime, (3) casuals and (4) other; and whether he will also provide for each year his estimates of (A) civil service job reductions due to privatisations, (B) civil service job reductions due to contracting out, (C) civil service job reductions resulting from other transfer of responsibilities, (D) the total of all other staff undertaking work for the Department or its agencies without being categorised as civil servants, including external consultants, researchers, agency secretarial staff and staff substitution and (E) total manpower expenditures, in 1994 prices. [15093]
§ Sir John Wheeler[holding answer 20 March 1995]: The civil service covers the permanent staff of central Government Departments and next steps agencies. The staff of other bodies are outside the civil service.
Details of staff numbers within the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments from 1989–90 onwards, divided into full-time equivalents, overtime and casuals are given in table 12.7 of the Northern Ireland departmental report, Cm 2816. Table 11.1 gives details of the running costs of the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments from 1989–1990 onwards.
Public Bodies, published annually since 1982, contains staffing information for those bodies not covered by the Northern Ireland departmental report.
Copies of both of these publications are available in the Library.
The remaining information sought could be provided only at disproportionate cost.