§ Mr. Formanasked the Minister for the Civil Service whether he will publish breakdowns between Departments of the reductions, for each financial year, in Civil Service staff costs announced in Command Paper No. 6393 and on 15th December; whether he will publish breakdowns of each reduction between wages and salaries and other costs; and whether he will state whether any redundancies have been caused or wil be caused by the reduction in staff costs.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe agreed savings in Civil Service expenditure for the financial years 1977–78 and 1978–79 announced in July 1976 are as follows:
(At 1976 Prices) 1977–78 1978–79 £m. £m. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1.6 4.2 Her Majesty's Customs and Excise 2.9 7.6 Inland Revenue 16.4 20.0 Department for National Savings 0.6 3.4 Department of Education and Science 0.5 1.2 Department of Employment Group 2.8 10.1 Department of the Environment 4.9 16.8 Ordnance Survey 0.5 1.2 Foreign and Commonwealth Office — 8.8 Home Office 0.9 3.6 Department of Industry 1.8 4.8 Civil Service Department 0.7 2.1 Her Majesty's Stationery Office 0.1 2.4 Scottish Office 1.1 3.0 Department of Health and Social Security 6.9 18.0 Department of Trade 0.8 2.1 Other Departments 3.0 9.4 Total 45.5 118.7 * Note: This saving is dependent upon Ministerial decisions following the CPRS Review of Overseas Representation. No analysis of the savings differentiating between wages and salaries and other administrative costs is available and indeed the split for 1978–79 may not yet have been finally agreed in departments.
742WDepartmental attribution of the further reductions in Civil Service staff costs, announced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer last December, is not yet complete.
The Government do not expect a general redundancy problem as a result of the reductions announced in Command 6393, but I cannot rule out the possibility that we will not he able to find further work for some specialist staff whose work is given up or for some staff in particular locations where work at present carried out is reduced. I do not expect any redundancies as a result of the further reductions announced last December.