§ Mr. Sheldonasked the Minister for the Civil Service what is the distribution of non-industrial civil servants in each of the regions expressed in civil servants per thousand of the population.
§ Mr. David HowellThe figures are as follows:
Economic Planning Region Number of non-industrial civil servants per thousand of the population Northern … … … 9.0 Yorkshire and Humberside 4.8 East Midlands … … 5.0 East Anglia … … 6.3 South Eastern … … 13.1 South Western … … l0.4 Wales and Monmouthshire 6.9 West Midlands … … 4.4 North Western … … 6.4 Scotland … … … 7.5 Northern Ireland … … 2.3