§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the total number of staff employed by the Property Services Agency at the latest available date; and what proportion of this figure is (a) administrative staff and (b) manual workers and other operatives.
§ Mr. Marks40,560 at 1st June 1978. Of these 21,167 were industrial and 19,393 71W non-industrial staff, including 6,211 in grades in the administration group. These figures exclude locally engaged staff overseas, of whom there were 7,042 on 1st April 1978.
§ Mr. Michael Morrisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the net cost to public funds of the Property Services Agency for the latest available year; what proportion of the cost is attributable to salaries; and what proportion is allocated to the provision of office and general accommodation services in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. MarksThe net cost to public funds of the service provided by the Property Services Agency in 1977–78 was approximately £849 million, of which some £290 million was attributable to the office and general accommodation programme in the United Kingdom. Salaries etc. of non-industrial staff amounted to about £64 million or approximately 7½ per cent. of total net costs; a further £67 million, or about 8 per cent. was for pay of industrial staff.
Total water supply revenue income Proportion of income met from Year £'000 unmeasured supplies measured supplies per cent. per cent. 1974–75 … … … … 246,521 58.1 37.1 1975–76 … … … … 342,693 59.4 36.3 1976–77 … … … … 393,050 62.5 35.0 1977–78 … … … … 456,907 60.3 35.8 The remaining proportion of water supply income was met from miscellaneous sources.