§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister for the Civil Service whether he will publish in the Official Report the numbers of civil servants when an incomes policy was first initiated, and their salaries and similar details for the latest convenient stated date.
Mr. Charles R. MorrisItis widely accepted that the first statutory attempt to regulate wages, etc., in England was made after the Black Death over 600 years ago and is contained in the Statute of Labourers (23 Edw 3). Unfortunately, information as to the number and salaries of civil servants at that time is not available.
The number at 1st January 1976 was 745,120 and the salaries of the major grades are set out in the 1976 edition of the Civil Service Year Book.
§ Mr. Nicholas Edwardsasked the Minister for the Civil Service, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Gow) on 9th June 1975 [Official Report, c. 28–39], if he will show the total number of civil servants employed in the United Kingdom, in each Department, on 1st January 1976; and to what extent the figures are not comparable with those in the earlier reply.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe numbers of United Kingdom-based civil servants in each Department on 1st January 1976 were as follows:
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Department 1976 Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ministry of 15,635 Cabinet Office 685 Charity Commission 337 Civil Service Pay Research Unit 39 Crown Estate Office 125 Customs and Excise 29,285 Defence, Ministry of 268,248 Education and Science, Department of 2,926 Export Credits Guarantee Department 1,924 Friendly Societies, Registry of 117 Government Actuary's Department 67 Home Office 32,528 Information, Central Office of 1,370 Inland Revenue 79,081 Land Registry 4,874 Law Officers' Department 21 Mint, Royal 1,202 National Debt Office 64 Ordnance Survey 4,450 Overseas Development. Ministry of 2,350
Paymaster General's Office 761 Privy Council Office 47 Public Prosecutions, Director of 185 Public Record Office 413 Public Trustee Office 465 Stationery Office 7,366 Supreme Court of Northern Ireland 102 Treasury 1,144 Treasury Solicitor 441
Scottish Departments Crown Office 35 Exchequer Office (QLTR) 56 General Register Office 383 Lord Advocate's Department 16 Procurator Fiscal Service 543 Registers of Scotland 394 Scottish Record Office 138
Departments created since 1965 Civil Service Department 5,480 Employment, Department of 21,557 Employment Service Agency 13,946* Energy, Department of 1,374 Environment, Dept. of the 28,390 Fair Trading, Office of Foreign and Commonwealth Office 10,248 Health and Safety Commission/Executive 3,122 Health and Social Security, Department of 91,563 Industry, Department of 10,180 Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce 504 Lands Tribunal (Scotland) 7 Lord Chancellor's Office 9,951 Manpower Services Commission 142* National Savings, Department for 13,645 Northern Ireland Office 276 Parliamentary Counsel 47 Population Censuses and Surveys, Office of 2,736 Prices and Consumer Protection, Department of 378 Property Services Agency 44,673 Royal Scottish Museum 180 Science Museum 525 Scottish Courts Administration 734 Scottish Office 10,670 Trade, Department of 7,730 Training Services Agency 6,774* Victoria and Albert Museum 691 Welsh Office 1,491 Total all Departments 745,120 * Note on comparability of figures.—The staff of the Manpower Services Commission and its Agencies were reclassified as civil servants on 1st January 1976 under the provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975
§ Mr. John Garrettasked the Minister for the Civil Service what are the criteria by which the reductions in Civil Service staff numbers referred to in the public expenditure White Paper will be made.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe White Paper on Public Expenditure to 1979–80 145W (Cmnd. 6393) refers to cuts in expenditure on manpower and related administration. I must ask my hon. Friend to await the results of the review which is being currently undertaken.