§ Mr. Sutcliffeasked the Minister for the Civil Service of the total Civil Service establishment now working in London how many are in the policy-making or former administrative grades and how many are in the functional or former executive and clerical grades not directly involved in policy making.
§ Mr. David HowellThe Fulton Report recognised that the distinction between the former Administrative and Executive Classes had become increasingly blurred in recent years. These two classes were combined at the beginning of 1971 to form, with the former Clerical Class, the new Administration Group. Many staff432W of this group, together with professional staff in other occupational streams, are closely concerned with policy-making, the junior grades providing necessary support and services for Ministers and the higher Civil Services grades. The differences between the three former classes are not now distinguishable in Civil Service statistics. My hon. Friend might find helpful the recently published manpower figures, which show in detail a breakdown between various categories of staff, although they do not distinguish between London staff and staff elsewhere.—[Vol. 825, c. 130–40; Vol. 826, c. 390–8.]