HC Deb 21 November 1983 vol 49 c31W
Mr. Murphy

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the current numbers of employees of the Hertfordshire county council as notified to his Department; how this compares with the figures for the preceding five years; what percentage this is per head of county council population; and how that compares with the county councils in England and Wales.

Mr. Waldegrave

The information requested, taken from published joint manpower watch returns, is as follows.

Hertfordshire county council
Full-time employees Part-time employees
June 1978 * *
[December 1978 19,455 19,295]
June 1979 19,532 19,241
June 1980 19,306 19,570
June 1981 19,491 18,403
June 1982 19,189 15,328
June 1983 18,446 15,398
*Not available.

In June 1983, the total number of council employees (full-time plus part-time) amounted to about 3.5 per cent. of the total population served. The corresponding staff-to-population ratio for the other 47 non-metropolitan county councils in England and Wales varied between 2.6 per cent. and 4.7 per cent.