§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Prime Minister what is the total number of persons employed in (a) the Civil Service, (b) local government, (c) the National Health Service, (d) the armed forces and (e) all other public corporations, including nationalised industries (i) on the same basis as in her reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North on 25 July 1983, Official Report, column 526, and (ii) including police civilians, cadets, traffic wardens, magistrates' courts, the probation service and agency staff.
§ The Prime MinisterThe information is as follows:
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Number employed (thousands) 1960 1979 1982 1983 A. Civil Service* 652 739 671 654 B. Local government (i)† n.a. 2,925 2,791 2,804 (ii)‡ 1,821 2,997 2,865 2,879 C. National Health Service 565 1,170 1,246 1,246 D. Armed Forces 518 314 324 322 E. Public Corporations 1,865 2,065 1,756 1,662 * Civil Service Manpower figures exclude staff of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, hence the figures given are in respect of Great Britain only. All other manpower figures shown are for the United Kingdom. All manpower figures are expressed as headcounts with part-time staff counted as whole units. In the reply to the hon. Member for North Norfolk on 28 July 1983 the figures for the Civil Service were on a full-time equivalence basis and not on a comparable basis with figures for other sectors. On a full-time equivalence basis civil service manpower figures were as quoted in the answer given on 28 July 1983. The 1983 figure on this basis was 643,000.
† Exlcuding police civilians, cadets, traffic wardens, magistrates courts, probation service and agency staff.
‡ Including the above groups.