§ Mr. John Mooreasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing for each year since 1945 the number of individuals under the age of 30 years employed by (a) the nationalised industries and (b) the Civil Service.
§ Mr. GoldingAge analysis of (a) the numbers employed by nationalised industries and (b) industrial civil servants are not compiled.
Estimates of the numbers of non-industrial civil servants aged under 30 years at 1st January for each year from 1972 are as follows: comparable figures for earlier years are not available:
1972 … … … … 144,000 1973 … … … … 146,000 1974 … … … … 146,000 1975 … … … … 153,000 1976 … … … … 177,000