Civil Servants (Northern Region)

HC Deb 28 January 1982 vol 16 cc408-9W

Mr. Foster

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many civil servants have been employed each year since 1974 in the Northern region.

Mr. Hayhoe

Staff in post employed in the Northern region from the earliest date for which information is centrally held were:

		Full-time equivalents (000s)
Year (1 January)	Non-industrial staff	Industrial staff	*Total
1975	†32.4	n.a.	n.a.
1976	34.5	n.a.	n.a.
1977	35.4	5.6	41.0
1978	35.5	5.6	41.2
1979	36.4	5.7	42.1
1980	35.1	5.5	40.6
1981	35.6	5.4	41.0
*Independently rounded.
† Including Manpower services Commission and its former agencies.