§ Dr. Edmund Marshallasked the Minister for the Civil Service how the Government's policies on public expenditure and the manning of the Civil Service, as announced by the Prime Minister on 13 May, are to apply to the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England.
§ Mr. ChannonRoyal and other commissions, including the Boundary Commission for England, are not reckoned as part of the Civil Service. The expenditure is, however, subject to cash limits including similar restrictions on the provision for pay and price increases as applied to Government Departments.
§ Dr. Edmund Marshallasked the Minister for the Civil Service by whose decision the complement of staff of the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England was increased on 1 April.
§ Mr. ChannonThe Boundary Commissions for England and Wales are serviced by a common secretariat of staff seconded from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. The number of staff is adjusted from time to time to match its programme of work. For this purpose my Department authorised a complement of 12 from 1 April 1980, an increase of 2 compared with 1 April 1979.