§ Lord O'HAGANasked Her Majesty's Government:
To what extent they have implemented Section 13 of the Transport Act 1978 in so far as it affects the movement of freight.
§ Baroness STEDMANI have nothing to add to the Answer my noble friend Lady Birk gave to the noble Lord on 16th November last.
Table 1 Premature retirements in the public interest by Departments Department 1974 1975* 1976 1977 1978 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries amp; Food 32 6 3 20 23 Cabinet Office — — 4 2 1 Civil Service Department — 4 19 19 5 Customs and Excise 5 9 16 22 16 Ministry of Defence 151 108 254 520 433 Department of Education amp; Science (including Victoria amp; Albert Science Museum) 1 8 17 16 11 Department of Employment Group‡ 9 2 6 11 4 Department of Energy — 1 4 6 3 Department of Environment 9 115 11 18 50 Department of Health and Social Security 4 7 13 7 14 Home Office — 7 8 8 5 Central Office of Information — — 1 4 2 Inland Revenue — 12 9 27 3 Land Registry 1 1 — 2 — Lord Chancellor's Department 1 2 — 3 1 Department for National Savings 7 8 2 165 110 Ordnance Survey 2 5 — 6 11 Royal Mint — 11 21 1 — Scottish Office 1 2 22 11 23 HM Stationery Office 2 — 3 3 — Department of Trade, Industry, Prices amp; Consumer Protection 4 4 9 115 31 Department of Transport — — — 3 27 HM Treasury — 1 2 3 — Others 17 4 15 16 12 TOTAL 246 317 439 1,008 785
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Table 2 Premature retirements in the public interest by groups of grades within the Administration Group 1974 1975* 1976 1977 1978† Administrative 14 12 67 119 85 Executive 10 10 43 242 183 Clerical 68 67 61 145 83 Notes: (i) The above figures are compiled from data held centrally and are subject to review in respect of errors and omissions. The totals given at Table 1 are slightly different from those given on 23rd January because of source data revisions; (ii) *From 1975 the figures exclude those for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; (iii) †The figures for 1978 are those which are currently available: these may be updated as further details become available; (iv) ‡Includes Department of Employment, Employment Services Division, Health and Safety Executive, Training Services Division and Manpower Services Commission; (v) The details in Table 1 relate to non-industrial civil servants who retired prematurely in the public interest on grounds of redundancy, on structural grounds and on grounds of limited efficiency in the years specified. The corresponding figures of industrial civil servants, to whom premature retirement on grounds of redundancy only applies, are not available centrally. (vi) In Table 2 the Clerical group comprises Clerical Assistants and Clerical Officers, the Executive group comprises Executive Officers, Higher Executive Officers and Senior Executive Officers and the Administrative group comprises Principals, Senior Principals and Assistant Secretaries.