§ Mr. Fairbairnasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the number of civil servants per million of the population in England and Wales, Scotland and each of the countries of the EEC.
§ Mr. Rowlands,pursuant to the reply [Official Report, 30th October 1975; Vol. 898, c. 611], gave the following informtion:
England and Wales 12,600 Scotland 12,100 Belgium 16,100 Denmark 18,800 France 19,300 Germany 28,300 Ireland 17,300 Italy 5,100 Luxembourg 3,400 Netherlands 10,700 These figures are necessarily an approximation because of the lack of a definition of what precisely constitutes a civil servant in different EEC countries. The figures exclude the Armed Forces, teachers, police and employees of state enterprises where these groups are readily identifiable.