HC Deb 11 November 1980 vol 992 cc99-100W
Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, for each county council in England (a) the total number of full and part-time staff reductions and (b) these figures expressed as a percentage of total employees, for the latest 12-month period for which figures are available.

Mr. King

The information requested as at June 1980, is set out in table D of the Joint Manpower Watch press release published on 18 September 1980, copies of which are available in the Library.

Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, for each district council in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire, the total number of those employed in or by the planning department, and if he will express these numbers in a manner to indicate the number of planners employed per 1,000 ratepayers.

Mr. King

Under the previous arrangements agreed with the local authority associations for the Joint Manpower Watch, figures for separate services in individual authorities are not available for central publication. The information requested can be provided, therefore, only by the authorities concerned.

However, under the Local Government, Planning and Land (No. 2) Bill, arrangements are being made for authorities to publish locally full manpower information at regular intervals.

Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, for each district council in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire, the reductions or increases in the total number of staff employed for each of the last four years for which figures are available.

Mr. King

Information on individual local authority manpower is available centrally only in the Joint Manpower Watch returns published since March 1980, copies of which are in the Library. For the convenience of my hon. Friend, I will send him a consolidated list of appropriate extracts.