§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many civil servants have been made redundant during 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983, respectively; and how many have joined the Civil Service in each of these years.
§ Mr. HayhoeFor the home Civil Service, the numbers of entrants and redundancies for non-industrial staff and estimates of redundancies for industrial staff are as follows. Figures for the second half of 1983 are not yet available. The numbers of industrial entrants are not held centrally.
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Home Civil Service 1979 1980 1981 1982 *1983 Non-Industrial Staff: Entrants (rounded) 48,600 48,600 32,400 †30,400 †13,300 Redundancies 124 228 721 †1,169 †540 Industrial Staff: Estimated Redundancies‡ 700 300 2,800 3,200 1,800 Source of Non-Industrial figures: Mandate. * First half. † Subject to revision. ‡ Estimated from figures supplied by major employing departments.