§ Mr. Wrigglesworthasked the Minister of Transport in which divisions, at what grades and in what geographical area the 308 posts by which the staff in post in his Department contracted between 1 April 1979 and 1 April 1980 were employed.
§ Mr. FowlerThe contraction between 1 April 1979 and 1 April 1980 was 414–5.
The directorates contribution to this reduction were:
- Deputy Chief Highway Engineer 1.
- Deputy Chief Highway Engineer 2.
- Highways Programming Contracts and Land.
- Highways Planning and Management.
- Local Transport and Roads.
- Transport and Road Research Laboratory.
- Road Construction Units.
- Railways.
- Freight and Transport Industries.
- Passenger Transport and Greater London.
- Road Safety.
- Vehicle Safety.
- Driving and Driver Licensing
- Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre.
The occupational groups contributing to the reductions were:
- Administration Group.
- Data Processing Group.
- Security Officer Group.
- Professional and Technology Group.
- Secretarial Group.
- Science Group.
- Cartographic and Recording Draghtsmen
- class.
- Cleaners.
- Drawing Office Assistants.
- Messengers.
- Paperkeepers.
- Photographers.
- Photoprinters.
- Psychologists.
It would cause disproportionate cost to list all the grades affected in each directorate and be of doubtful value—many posts vacant on 1 April this year have since been filled while others, then occupied,
1978 January-April 1979 1980 Circulars … … … … … … … 6 5 1 Circulars (Roads) … … … … … … 7 5 1 Technical Memoranda (includes standards and Advice Notes) … … … … … … … 6 2 4 Occasional Publications (includes Local Traffic Notes and Traffic Advisory Unit Reports). … … … — 1 2 Total … … … … … … 19 13 8