§ Mr. Peter Walkerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many staff are employed in England and Wales and in Scotland, in the offices of local authority housing departments.
§ Mr. Guy BarnettAccording to the Joint Staff Watch on local authority manpower, copies of which are available in 287W the Library, 44,828 full-time and 10,102 part-time staff were employed in the housing departments of local authorities in England and Wales at 13th December 1975, the latest date for which information is available. However, these figures exclude employees engaged on the maintenance of council dwellings who generally are included in the totals recorded under "Construction" in the Joint Staff Watch returns; the number of these employees cannot be separately identified.
Information about the numbers employed in the housing departments of local authorities in Scotland is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland.