HC Deb 28 July 1983 vol 46 cc525-6W
Mr. Ralph Howell

asked the Prime Minister how many civil servants were recruited in each of the years 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982; and how many civil servants were (a) retired, (b) made redundant, (c) dismissed or left voluntarily and (d) reclassified for each of the years 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982.

The Prime Minister

Entrant and leaver figures for industrial staff are not held centrally; numbers for the nonindustrial home Civil Service are as follows:

1979 1980 1981 1982
Entrants (rounded) 48,600 48,600 32,400 28,200
Leavers by cause
Age retirement 12,609 15,405 15,132 15,344
Voluntary resignation 48,741 33,121 22,175 22,888
Voluntary early retirement — 612 130 —
Redundancy 124 228 721 1,123
Premature retirement 2,670 2,540 2,804 3,199
Dismissal 571 611 511 422
Death 1,684 1,634 1,432 1,227
Other 872 590 664 570
Total (rounded) 67,300 54,700 43,600 44,800

Source: Mandate.

Note: 1982 figures are subject to revision; those for earlier years are definitive.