§ 116. Mr. John Hallasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table of employment by sector in the years 1946 to 1957, inclusive, comparable with the figures for subsequent years shown in Table 13 of "National Income and Expenditure 1969"; and if he will also indicate for each year since 1946 what part of civilian employment by central Government was accounted for by industrial and non-industrial civil servants, respectively.
§ Mr. William RodgersFigures for 1956 and 1957 are given in the table below. I regret that comparable figures for earlier years are not available. The table also shows the numbers of industrial and non-industrial civil servants for each year from 1956 to 1968. These figures, however, cover only part of 265W civilian employment in the central government sector as defined for the national accounts.
1. EMPLOYMENT ANALYSED BY SECTOR OF EMPLOYMENT 1956 1957 (thousands) Private sector 18,432 18,511 Public sector Public corporations 2,084 2,072 Central government H.M. Forces 761 702 Civilians 1,644 1,624 Local authorities 1,588 1,628 Total 6,077 6,026 Total working population in employment 24,509 24,537
2. NUMBERS OF CIVIL SERVANTS AT 1ST JULY IN EACH YEAR* Non industrial Industrial (thousands) 1956 … … … 660 426 1957 … … … 651 408 1958 … … … 651 385 1959 … … … 654 369 1960 … … … 658 362 1961 … … … 400 272 1962 … … … 406 270 1963 … … … 420 265 1964 … … … 424 258 1965 … … … 427 241 1966 … … … 442 236 1967 … … … 467 234 1968 … … … 481 227 *Post Office staff are excluded from 1961 onwards.