§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what was the total number of persons employed in education in Northern Ireland for each of the years 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1981; and if he will break the figures down into the following categories (a) lecturers and teachers and (b) non-teaching staff.
§ Mr. Scott[pursuant to his reply, 15 March 1982, c. 30]: The total number of staff, both full time and part time, employed in education in Northern Ireland for each of the years 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1981, for which figures are available, is set out in the following table:
groups of employees specified. They exclude redundancies among Crown servants, the police and the Armed Forces as well as certain other groups which are rot covered by the statutory provisions relating to redundancies. Moreover, redundancies in nationalised industries and in the private sector are not separately identified in the figures.