HC Deb 21 July 1972 vol 841 cc190-1W
Mr. Body

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of non-industrial civil servants employed in the Prices and General Policy Division, the Manpower and Productivity Services Division, the Incomes Division, both public and private sectors, Industrial Relations Division, Overseas Division, Research and Planning Division, Employment Policy and General Division, Employment Services Division, Estabishments Division, Finance Division, Safety, Health and Welfare Divisions, Selective Employments Payments Division, Solicitors Division, Training Department, Statistics Division and Government Wool-Disinfecting Station, respectively, of his Department on 18th June, 1970; and how many were so employed on 18th June, 1972.

Mr. Dudley Smith

The organisation of my Department has changed since the General Election and it is not possible to make direct comparisons of staff deployment between divisions of the kind requested. The table below shows the main areas of the Department's work which are performed centrally and the numbers of non-industrial civil servants employed in them at Under Secretary level and below on 1st July, 1970 and 1st April, 1972, the nearest dates to 18th June in those years for which statistics are available.

Non-Industrial Civil Servants employed on
Main Area of Work 1st July, 1970 1st April 1972
Establishments 1,243 1,330
Finance 471 445
Incomes 71 59
Industrial Relations 163 119
Manpower and Employment 195 335
Occupational Safety and Health 327 344
Overseas 47 41
Race Relations, Commonwealth Immigrants', and Foreign Labour 109 112
Research and Planning 101 43
Selective Employment Payments 15 15
Solicitors 27 28
Statistics 351 302
Training 281 309

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