§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will 331W compare for 1960, 1970 and the latest year for which figures are available, at current and at constant prices, the total wages and salaries bill for local government employees, distinguishing between the main categories of employment, and also showing the average cost per
£'000 1960–61 … … … … … 971,300 1970–71 … … … … … 2,707,972 1977–78 … … … … … 8,992,895 1978–79 … … … … … 9,915,000 (Provisional estimate) Notes (a) A specific deflator to convert these figures to constant prices is not available. (b) It is not possible to distinguish between the main categories of employment. Below is a table showing the latest available breakdown of these total figures by service (at current prices). (c) Historical figures on average cost per employee are not available, but the current number of employees (full-time equivalents) in this sector is 1977–78 2,073.8 thousand, and for 1978–79 2.085.4 thousands. (d) All "wages and salary" figures include employer's superannuation and national insurance contribution.
SALARIES AND WAGES (1)(6) AT OUTTURN PRICES £'000 1960–61 1970–71 1977–78 Education (excluding meals and milk) … … 414,000 1,117,840 4,112,755 School meals and milk … … … … 79,743 316,182 Public libraries, museums and art galleries … — 33,819 123,571 Local health authority(2) services … … 44,700 135,556 — Welfare services … … … … … 15,600 59,482 — Child care (including approved schools and remand homes … … … … … 8,800 32,424 — Personal social services … … … … — — 751,068 Police (including school crossing patrols) … 73,900 260,032 868,788 Fire service … … … … … 18,900 53,838 183,610 Administration of justice (including probation service) … … … … … … — 22,230 75,832 Sewerage and sewage(3) disposal … … 10,800 29,108 — Refuse collection and disposal … … … 25,200 59,702 189,784 Parks and open spaces … … … … 17,300 43,090 228,212 Baths and public laundries … … … — 14,543 — Public health (including port health authority services) … … … … … … — 34,003 128,618 Rate collection … … … … … — 14,280 61,716 General administration … … … … — 101,260 255,631 Highways, public lighting and parking of vehicles … … … … … … 50,400 118,839 323,651 Youth employment … … … … — 5,680 21,964 All other rate fund(4) services … … … 115,300 131,813 470,118 Housing(5) … … … … … … 38,700 112,917 444,138 Trading services—all … … … … 102,200 160,665 178,893 Agency services for government departments … 6,200 19,736 62,746 Capital account—all … … … … 29,300 67,381 195,618 All services … … … … … 971,300 2,707,972 8,992,895 (1) Including employer's contribution to superannuation funds and payments to beneficiaries under pension schemes not chargeable to superannuation funds. (2) Responsibility for these services passed to the new health authorities on reorganisation. (3) As a result of reorganisation responsibility for sewerage and sewage disposal has been transferred to regional water authorities. (4) Up to and including 1976–77 includes "unallocated salaries and wages". (5) Housing revenue account, slum clearance and other housing (Slum clearance and other housing are rate fund services). (6) Extracted from "Local Government Financial Statistics, England and Wales".