§ 61. Mr. Bishopasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of changes in the membership of public boards of a commercial character which have occurred since Command Paper No. 4611 was published in March, 1971.
§ Mr. David HowellI am arranging for the information to be obtained from my right hon. Friends who are responsible for these appointments and will then write to the hon. Member.
Department of Health and Social Security … Expansion of services and demographic growth … +1,950* Inland Revenue … Taxation changes and demographic growth … +1,808 Home Office … Increase in Prison Officers and additional workload in the immigration field … +1,500* Scottish Office … Increase in Prison Officers and general increase in workload … +304 Department of Employment … Increase in unemployment and expansion of Government Training Centres and Industrial Rehabilitation Units … +800* Office of Population Censuses and Surveys … Census 1971 … +500 General Record Office (Scotland) +169 Customs and Excise … Planning for the introduction of Value Added Tax … +173 Courts … Increase in work, mainly on divorce cases, and unification of courts services … +301 Land Registry … Increase in applications for registration of land … +317 National Museums and Galleries Extended services and additional exhibitions … +180 Other Departments … (i.e., those with increases of less than 100) … +558 +8,560 Ministry of Defence … Rationalisation and reduction of task … -5,150* Department of the Environment Introduction of productivity scheme for building and maintenance workers … -1,750* Land Commission … Dissolution … -900 Royal Mint … Rundown of staff at Tower Hill and end of decimal coin stockpiling … -172 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food … Rundown of staff consequent upon reduction in functions (Cmnd. 4564) … -145 Other Departments … (i.e., those with decreases of less than 100) … -318 -8,435 Net incrrease … +125 * These figures have been adjusted to take account of inter-departmental transfers as a result of machinery of Government and other changes. For a detailed functional breakdown I would refer the hon. Gentleman to my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Dorking (Sir G. Sinclair) on 9th November, 1971 in which I gave details of Civil Service staff numbers on 1st July, 1971 in a new form of presentation which I propose to make available quarterly in future; the details for 1st October, 1971 will be available shortly.