§ Mr. Frank Fieldasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish from his latest manpower watch data a list of the 20 authorities most successful in reducing local authority employment; and if he will place Wirral metropolitan authority in the ordering.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe latest available joint manpower watch survey (December 1983) shows that the 20 authorities reporting the largest annual numerical reductions in the total number of their employees are as shown in the following table. In such a ranking, Wirral metropolitan authority would be 30th.
Reduction in total number of employees (full-time plus part-time December 1982–December 1983 Authority Merton London Borough Council -1,239 Staffordshire Non-metropolitan County Council -1,004 Cambridgshire Non-metropolitan County Council -745 Dudley Metropolitan County Council -722 Birmingham Metropolitan District Council -657 Oxfordshire Non-metropolitan County Council -589 Lincolnshire Non-metropolitan County Council -579 Hertfordshire Non-metropolitan County Council -443 Humberside Non-metropolitan County Council -401 Wandsworth London Borough Council -383 East Sussex Non-metropolitan County Council -366 Surrey Non-metropolitan County Council -366 Ealing London Borough Council -352 Hampshire Non-metropolitan County Council -347 Sutton London Borough Council -340 Doncaster Metropolitan District Council -338 Bromley London Borough Council -272 Bristol Non-metropolitan District Council -239 Essex Non-metropolitan County Council -184 Gloucestershire Non-metropolitan County Council -172
§ Mr. Wareingasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the number of persons employed by each individual district council for each year from 1973 to 1983 inclusive.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe total numbers employed by most of the district councils in England have been published since December 1979 in the quarterly joint manpower watch surveys, copies of which are available in the Library of the House. These surveys include the figures from December 1978 but no information on the situation before then is available centrally.