§ Mr. Hollandasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will give the number of bodies in each of the past three years whose staff salaries and other conditions of service were subject to ministerial control, and give or estimate the equivalent number of such bodies in 1945, 1964 and 1970.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe number of bodies—excluding Government Departments—in each of the past three years whose staff salaries and other conditions of service were subject to ministerial control was as follows:
1976 176 1977 177 1978 177 Information on the numbers of such bodies in 1945, 1964 and 1970 is, I regret, not available centrally and could be obtained, if at all, from sponsoring Departments only at disproportionate cost.