§ Mr. Arnold Shawasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will now publish in the Official Report the results of the first quarterly joint staff watch survey of local authorities in England and Wales.
§ Mr. CroslandThe table below shows the numbers employed full-time and part-time by all local authorities in England and Wales at 31st March 1975.
These are the first figures available from the new survey which will continue on a quarterly basis under arrangements made jointly by the Government and the local authority associations. They should be read in conjunction with the follow-in notes:
1. The staff watch survey is a comprehensive survey of employees engaged in a number of separate departments or services which together cover the whole range of local authority activities. It is a new system starting from 31st March 1975, which will continue on a regular quarterly basis, and in time it
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JOINT STAFF WATCH SURVEY OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES ENGLAND AND WALES Numbers employed at 31st March 1975 Department or Service Full-time Part-time Totals (full-time and part-time) Education—Lecturers and teachers … … 518,768 203,440 722,208 Others … … 220,862 481,968 702,830 Construction … … 136,458 808 137,266 Transport … … 22,494 391 22,885 Social Services … … 127,300 146,551 273,851 Public libraries and museums … … 24,696 13,847 38,543 Recreation, parks and baths … … 64,995 11,762 76,757 Environmental health … … 19,991 2,202 22,193 Refuse collection and disposal … … 51,699 574 52,273 Housing … … 43,477 8,865 52,342 Town and Country planning … … 19,502 485 19,987 Fire Service—Regular … … 30,934 — 30,934 Others … … 5,273 1,654 6,927 Miscellaneous services* … … 254,224 39,734 293,958 1,540,673‡ 912,281‡ 2,452.954‡ Police—All Ranks … … 102,738 — 102,738 Cadets … … 4,856 — 4,856 Civilians … … 30,092 7,096 37,188 Traffic Wardens … … 6,162 — 6,162 143,848 7,096 150,944 Agency staff … … 603 196 799 Magistrates' Courts† … … 5,687 1,105 6,792 Probation staff†—Officers … … 4,375 117 4,492 Others … … 2,421 865 3,286 13,086 2,283 15,369 * Covers central support staff and other staff, not included in other departments or services, also school crossing patrols, staff on special functions, trading services and agriculture and fisheries. † Excludes figures for outer London which are not yet available. ‡ Includes 505,061 full-time and 603.673 part-time manual employees should be possible to discern seasonal fluctuations, particularly in part-time and temporary employment, in addition to longer-term trends.
2. Figures are shown separately for full-time and part-time employees; the total column is merely an arithmetical total. Consideration is being given to means of converting part-time numbers to full-time equivalents.
3. The figures are not directly comparable with the annual figures published by the Department of Employment which show the numbers employed by local authorities at June each year. Differences exist between the two series, but an assessment of them cannot be made until data can be compared for the same quarter. The following notes relate to some of the differences.
4. The Department of Employment figures are collected for a different purpose previously on an annual, but now a quarterly, basis. The mid-June 1974 annual survey was taken immediately after local government reorganisation while authorities were still adjusting to new conditions.
5. The staff watch survey includes civilian employees of police authorities, cadets, traffic wardens, and staff of magistrates' courts' committees and probation and after-care committees who are excluded from the Department of Employment figures.