§ Mr. Cormackasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many civil servants were employed within his Department on 31st December 1975, how many of these worked in London and how many in the provinces; what was the total annual cost of employing them in 1975; and how this compared with the annual wages and salaries bill for 1974.
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§ Mr. Crosland73,062 staff were employed on 31st December 1975; of these 24,068 worked in the London area. The total annual cost in 1975–76 is estimated to be £255.5 million compared with an outturn of £200 million in 1974–75.