§ Mr. Bradleyasked the Minister of Transport what was the annual reduction in manpower employed by the Railways Board for the years 1962 to 1966, inclusive and what was the number of discharges through redundancy for the same years.
§ Mr. John MorrisThe annual reduction in railway staff and the number discharged through redundancy were:
The above table does not include the relatively small number of staff employed in the shipping, harbour, hotel and rail catering activities of the Railways Board redundancy figures for these groups are not readily available.
Year Reduction Redundancy Discharges 1962 … … 26,602 not available 1963 … … 26,994 8,000 1964 … … 40,546 9,231 1965 … … 33,926 11,486 1966 … … 26,092 9,813