§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the total number of local government employees in each year since 1960.
§ Mr. KingThe attached table gives the combined totals of full and part-time employees in local authorities in England
152Wgeneral consent to the sale of subsidised new town housing at concessionary prices.
and Wales, including police, for the period since 1960. The numbers of police civilians, traffic wardens, police cadets, agency, magistrates' courts and probation staffs were not covered in surveys prior to 1975 and are therefore excluded from the table in order to provide a broadly comparable set of figures.
Mid-June Thousands 1960 1,532 1961 1,576 1962 1,638 1963 1,697 1964 1,772 1965 1,827 1966 1,919 1967 2,001 1968 2,069 1969 2,124 1970 2,162 1971 2,234 1972 2,340 1973 2,454 1974 2,443 1975 2,556 1976 2,574 1977 2,556 1978 2,568 1979 2,611