HC Deb 23 February 1982 vol 18 cc345-6W
Sir David Price

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many civil servants were employed by his Department in May 1979; how many are employed in February 1982; and what has been the percentage change; in each case how many were first division civil servants; and what has been the percentage change in their numbers.

Mr. Fowler

Statistics on Civil Service departmental staff-in-post are collected and centrally collated at quarterly intervals. The numbers of staff in my

months after the British Broadcasting Corporation's "Panorama" programme on brain death of October 1980 and (c) the percentage increase or decrease which this represents.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

In the period October 1979 to September 1980 a total of 784 cadaver kidney transplants were performed in England, compared with a total of 596 in the 12 months October 1980 to September 1981. This represents a decrease of approximately 24 per cent.