§ Mr. Marlowasked the Minister for the Civil Service what have been the numbers of permanent secretaries, under secretaries, assistant secretaries and principals, employed in the Civil Service for each of the last 15 years.
§ Mr. ChannonThe information for the grades named in the non-industrial Home Civil Service is set out in the table below.
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STAFF-IN-POST 1965 TO 1979(1) Full time equivalents(2) At 1 April Grade 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Permanent Secretary … 37 40 34 34 36 35 35 37 40 43 42 44 44 41 41 Deputy Secretary … 114 122 128 136 135 133 136 135 154 157 165 165 160 160 162 Undersecretary … 400 437 463 472 493 497 531 561 595 607 651 663 652 637 635 Assistant Secretary … — — 949 981 987 1,043 1,088 1,094 1,147 1,192 1,247 1,273 1,260 1,203 1,245 Principal … — — 2,684 2,856 2,987 3,154 3,401 3,666 3,957 4,156 4,405 4,572 4,561 4,534 4,662 Source: Staff-in-post returns. Notes: (1)(a) For purposes of consistency the staff of the Manpower Services Commission are included in 1974 and (with ESD, TSD) in 1975 although they were not then part of the Manpower Count. (b)(i) For the purposes of this table, the figures for Deputy Secretary include those paid at rates between Permanent Secretary and Deputy Secretary, and the figures for Under Secretary include those paid at rates between Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary. (ii) Figures for Under Secretary and above comprise agreed posts since consistent data on staff in post is not available for the full period. All other figures relate to staff in post. (iii) Figures for staff in post in Assistant Secretary and Principal grades in 1965 and 1966 consistent with those for later years are not available centrally. (iv) For the earlier years the staff in post figures relate to the former Administration, Executive and departmental grades which were subsequently combined to form the Administration Group grades given above. (2) Part-timers are counted as half units.