§ Mr. Amessasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report the numbers, by grade, expressed as a percentage of the whole, of the number of posts by which the Civil Service has been reduced between May 1979 and May 1984.
§ Mr. HayhoeThere are about 2,500 grades in the Civil Service. The following table shows the reductions by
Civil Service: Reductions* between 1 April 1979 and 1 April 1984 Full-time equivalents† and percentages Reductions* Numbers as percentage of staff as that level at 1 April 1979 as percentage of total reduction Non-industrial staff‡ Senior open structure 136 16.7 0.1 Grade 4 and equivalents 24 8.3 0.0 Grade 5 and equivalents 320 10.2 0.3 Grade 6 and equivalents 540 9.8 0.5 Principal and equivalents 1,140 7.8 1.1 Senior executive officer and equivalents 2,500 10.2 2.3 Higher executive officer and equivalents 4,500 8.3 4.1 Executive officer and equivalents 12,200 8.7 11.3 Clerical officer and equivalents 17,400 8.9 16.1 Clerical assistant and equivalents 22,800 17.8 21.1 All non-industrial staff 61,600 10.9 56.8 Industrial staff 46,700 28.1 43.2 Total 108,300 14.8 100.0 * Including a small element of estimation. † Part-time staff counted as half-units. ‡ All non-industrial grades expressed in terms of their pay equivalents in the Administration Group.