HC Deb 19 February 1976 vol 905 cc771-7W
Mr. Michael McGuire

asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list in the Official Report the total number of public service jobs, both manual and non-manual, which have either been dispersed to, or created in, the various regions of the country since 1945, giving in each case (1) the name of the recipient city or town in each region, (2) the name of the transferred or created Department, (3) the number of jobs involved, (4) net cost to

NORTHERN REGION (Population 3.126 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Ministry of Defence … … Carlisle … 71
Department of Education and Science … … Darlington … 640
Inland Revenue … … Newcastle … 109
Gateshead … 266
Middlesbrough … 195
Sunderland … 40
Washington … 134
Department for National Savings … … Durham … 1,835
Posts established in new offices
Department of Health and Social Security … … Billingham … 35
Washington … 44
Her Majesty's Stationery Office … … Gateshead … 402
Department of Industry … … Billingham … 130
Land Registry … … Durham … 255
Total for Northern Region … … … … 4,156
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 3,860
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 4,051
YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE (Population 4.894 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Ministry of Defence … … Harrogate … 277
Inland Revenue … … Leeds … 134
Bradford … 252
Sheffield … 85
Shipley … 366
Total for Yorkshire and Humberside … … … 1,114
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 1,700
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 850

the Government and (5) the number of jobs allocated to each region, calculated on a per head of population basis.

Mr. Charles R. Morris

The information below covers Civil Service work dispersed from London since May 1963—when comprehensive records were first started, following the Flemming Report—and Civil Service posts established in new offices as a result of the policy, initiated in 1965, of setting up new work away from London wherever possible. Estimates of the costs and benefits broken down between regions are not readily available and would involve disproportionate work to prepare. Further plans for dispersal, including the decisions announced by the Lord President of the Council on 30th July 1974, and further posts to be established in new offices, are also shown. The information for each English region and for Scotland and Wales is as follows:

NORTH-WEST (Population 6.577 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Charity Commission … … Liverpool … 104
Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) … Liverpool … 75
Department of Health and Social Security … … Blackpool … 113
Fleetwood … 331
Department of Employment … … Runcorn … 600
Department of Energy … … Liverpool … 36
Department of the Environment … … Liverpool … 233
Home Office … … Manchester … 2
Inland Revenue … … Bootle … 210
Manchester … 2,508
Crewe … 23
Posts established in new offices
Department of Health and Social Security … … Fleetwood … 69
Blackpool … 25
Preston … 21
Department of Industry … … Bootle … 109
Inland Revenue … … Liverpool … 15
Land Registry … … Lytham … 635
Total for North West … … … … 5,109
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 4,537
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 610
EAST MIDLANDS (Population 3.728 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Department of Energy … … Leicester … 50
Home Office … … Corby … 123
Posts established in new offices
Land Registry … … Nottingham … 509
Total for East Midlands … … … … 682
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 3
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 381
WEST MIDLANDS (Population 5.178 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Ministry of Defence … … Worcester … 231
Home Office … … Birmingham … 3
Inland Revenue … … Stoke-on-Trent … 45
Total for West Midlands … … … … 279
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 200
EAST ANGLIA (Population 1.780 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food … Cambridge … 41
Her Majesty's Stationery Office … … Norwich … 1,103
Passport Office … … Peterborough … 89
Total for East Anglia … … … … 1,233
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 794
SOUTH-WEST (Population 4.233 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Ministry of Defence … … Taunton … 248
Gloucester … 34
Bath … 240
Blandford … 14
Devizes … 20
Department of the Environment … … Bristol … 16
Home Office … … Bristol … 3
Inland Revenue … … Plymouth … 50
Exeter … 30
Countryside Commission … … Cheltenham … 100
Natural Environmental Research Council … … Swindon … 48
Land Registry … … Plymouth … 292
Science Research Council … … Swindon … 121
Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) … Portland … 14
Posts established in new offices
Land Registry … … Gloucester … 621
Plymouth … 251
Total for South-West … … … … 2,102
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 1,808
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 828
SOUTH-EAST (Population 16.936 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Civil Service Department … … Basingstoke … 748
Sunningdale … 47
Crown Estate Office … … Bracknell … 40
Her Majesty's Customs and Excise … … Southend … 1,186
Rayleigh … 15
Ministry of Defence … … Portsmouth … 5
Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) … Reading … 18
Farnborough … 70
Bedford … 30
Employment Services Agency … … Basingstoke … 49
Colchester … 43
Eastbourne … 31
Department of the Environment … … Crowthorne … 568
Hastings … 755
Hemel Hempstead … 43
Department of Health and Social Security … … Basingstoke … 290
Southampton … 79
Home Office … … Banbury … 34
Inland Revenue … … Portsmouth … 275
Southampton … 247
Worthing … 384
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys … … Titchfield … 180
Ordnance Survey … … Southampton … 700
Paymaster General's Office … … Crawley … 606
Her Majesty's Stationery Office … … Basildon … 488
Training Services Agency … … Basingstoke … 104
Posts established in new offices
Civil Service College … … Sunningdale … 129
Her Majesty's Customs and Excise … … Southend … 1,307
Department of Health and Social Security … … Reading … 127
Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce … Reading … 403
Land Registry … … Stevenage … 494
Tunbridge Wells … 690
Total for South-East … … … … 10,185
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 1,583
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 206
SCOTLAND (Population 5.206 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Department for National Savings—National Savings Bank Glasgow … 4,740
Forestry Commission … … Edinburgh … 145
Inland Revenue … … Edinburgh … 1,152
Posts established in new offices
Civil Service Department … … Edinburgh … 135
Department of Energy … … Glasgow … 121
Department of Industry … … Glasgow … 160
Total for Scotland … … … … 6,453
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 8,330
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 850
WALES (Population 2.765 million)
Department Location Number
Posts dispersed
Inland Revenue … … Cardiff … 50
Newport … 80
Pontypridd … 32
Royal Mint … … Llantrisant … 989
Passport Office … … Newport … 87
Departments of Trade and Industry … … Cardiff/Newport … 1,214
Posts established in new offices
Department of the Environment … … Newtown … 6
Swansea … 4,872
Department of Industry … … Cardiff … 152
Land Registry … … Swansea … 142
Total for Wales … … … … 7,624
Further posts to be dispersed … … … … 7,388
Further posts to be established in new offices … … … … 2,446

Note: Posts which have been, or are being, established in new offices and which, although benefiting a particular location, do not represent a net gain to a region, have been excluded.

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