§ Mr. MacFarquharasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department by how much the number of civil servants 462W and other categories of public sector officials, including industrial civil servants, in his Department increased between 1970–71, 1973–74 and 1974–75.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsBetween 1st April 1970 and 1st April 1974 the number of Home Office civil servants, non-industrial and industrial, and other public sector officials—seconded police, fire service and probation officers—increased by 4,016 of which 3,129 were in the Prison Service. There was a further increase of 2,079—including 348 staff transferred from the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications—of which 1,026 were in the Prison Service between 1st April 1974 and 1st April 1975.