§ Mr. Butcherasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the current total of (a) monthly and (b) weekly-paid employees of local authority housing departments in England and Wales compared with the same dates in 1974 and in 1964.
§ Mr. KingAt 8 September 1979, the latest date for which information is available, the joint manpower watch figures show 49,802 full-time equivalent employees of local authorities allocated to housing, of whom 14,953 were manual and 34,849 non-manual employees. Local authority employees engaged in house building by direct labour and maintenance work on housing estates are allocated to construction in the joint manpower watch and cannot be separately identified. No comparable information is available for dates before March 1975.