§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister for the Civil Service whether he will publish a detailed list of the Civil Service staffs employed in each of the spending Departments of the Government in January 1974 and at the latest stated date and the salary and wages bill at those stated dates.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe numbers of civil servants employed in each Government Department on 1st January 1974 and 1st April 1976 were as follows:
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Department Staff in Post 1st January 1974 Staff in Post 1st April 1976 Public Recofrd Office … … … 342 410 Public Trustee Office … … … 503 438 Registers of Scotland … … … 380 402 Registry Friendly Societies … … … 104 120 Registry of Trade Unions and Employers' Associations … … 39 — Royal Mint … … … 1,157 1,132† Royal Scottish Museum … … … 166 181 Science Museum … … … 411 525 Scottish Courts Administration … … … 728 740 Scottish Office … … … 9,704 10,747 Scottish Record Office … … … 138 133 Stationery Office … … … 7,152 7,412 Supreme Court of Northern Ireland … … … 96 100 Trade, Department of … … … — 7,962 Trade and Industry, Department of … … … 18,721 — Treasury … … … 1,000 1,132 Treasury Solicitor … … … 378 444 Victoria and Albert Museum … … … 638 698 Welsh Office … … … 1,062 1,523 *This figure includes 21,682 staff in the Royal ordnance factories who are paid from a trading fund and not from the Supply Estimates. † Staff paid from a trading fund for which there are no Supply Estimates. Consolidated information on the Civil Service salary and wages bill is published annually in April when the Supply Estimates are presented. The initial provision for the year 1974–75 was £1,840 million and that for 1976–77 was £2,619 million.