§ Mr. Madelasked the Minister for the Civil Service if she will publish in the Official Report the total establishment and the number of civil servants in post each year between 1970–71 and 1980–81; and how many civil servants were made redundant in each year.
§ Mr. HayhoeThe following table shows the number of civil servants provided for in Estimates—including the staff of trading funds—in each year since 1970 and those in post for the same period.
Year (as at 1 April) Provision Staff in Post (Full time equivalents) 1970 706,649 700,900 1971 703,105 700,100 1972 694,632 690,400 1973 710,935 700,200 1974 699,561 697,500 1975 706,879 720,400 1976 763,030 747,600 1977 759,932 745,600 1978 744,969 735,700 1979 740,195 732,300 1980 712,125 704,900 1981 694,893 695,100 (1 Jaunary) The following table gives the number of non-industrial civil servants who were either retired prematurely on redundancy grounds or retired early under special schemes in the years 1975–76 to 1980–81, and the number of non-industrial civil servants who left the service prematurely at management's behest for other reasons in each of these years. Information on earlier years is not available. Similar details about industrial civil servants are not held centrally.
Year Redundancy and Voluntary Early Retirement Other Premature Departures 1975–76 200 3,100 1976–77 280 3,600 1977–78 850 4,300 1978–79 420 4,300 1979–80 120 3,700 1980–81(provisional) 1,020 3,200 Those staff in the Manpower Services Commission and its former agencies in 1974 and 1975 who were not counted in the Civil Service have been included in the staff in post and non-industrial redundancy figures for purposes of consistency. No other adjustments for movements of staff into or out of the Civil Service in the period have been made.