§ Mr. Hall-Davisasked the Minister for the Civil Service how many civil servants and industrial civil servants, respectively, received redundancy or severance payments in the year to 30th September 1975 or in the most recent 12-month period for which the information is available.
1975–76 Total Estimated Cost £ £ Royal Commission on the Press 296,000 485,000 Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life 82,000 130,000 Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth 400,000 * *Not known: appointed as a Standing Commission. In addition certain other costs are provided on an allied services basis by Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Property Services Agency, for which figures are not available and cannot be obtained without disproportionate effort.
The appointment of two further Royal Commissions has recently been announced but it is too early to determine their estimate costs. They are the Royal Commission on the National Health Service—[Official Report, 20th October, Vol. 898, c. 35]—and the Royal Commission on
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§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisFor the last period for which this information is available, the calendar year 1974, the figure was 1,028. This includes both non-industrial and industrial civil servants; separate figures are not held centrally.