§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the total full-time equivalent number of employees and the figure as a percentage of local population in descending percentage numbers for (a) each shire county and (b) each metropolitan county.
§ Mr. WaldegraveInformation about the full-time equivalent number of employees is not available centrally for individual local authorities. Information relating to full-time employees is as follows:
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Full-time staff* Full time staff as percentage of local population Metropolitan counties South Yorkshire 4,601 0.35 West Yorkshire 6,394 0.31 Merseyside 4,333 0.29 Tyne and Wear 3,176 0.28 Greater Manchester 6,081 0.23 West Midlands 5,444 0.21 Shire counties Cleveland 14,069 2.49 Durham 14,281 2.36 Nottinghamshire 23,008 2.32 Northumberland 6,512 2.16 Cumbria 10,391 2.15 Leicestershire 18,352 2.12 Humberside 18,069 2.11 Lancashire 28,370 2.04 Isle of Wight 2,427 2.02 Staffordshire 20,302 1.99 Derbyshire 18,078 1.98 Avon 18.296 1.96 Cheshire 18,220 1.92 Northamptonshire 10,324 1.90 Hertfordshire 18,265 1.88 Bedfordshire 9,577 1.86 Shropshire 7,140 1.85 Gloucestershire 9,282 1.83 Hereford and Worcestershire 11,545 1.80 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 7,752 1.78 Devon 17,144 1.77 North Yorkshire 12,019 1.76 Somerset 7,680 1.76 Berkshire 12,513 1.75 Cambridgeshire 10,617 1.74 Lincolnshire 9,627 1.73 Wiltshire 9,065 1.70 Warwickshire 8,164 1.70 Buckinghamshire 10,131 1.69 Oxfordshire 9,331 1.68 East Sussex 11,394 1.68 Hampshire 24,669 1.65
Full-time staff* Full time staff as percentage of local population Kent 24,249 1.62 Norfolk 11,438 1.60 Dorset 9,777 1.59 Suffolk 9,820 1.59 Essex 23,591 1.57 Surrey 14,664 1.43 West Sussex 9,766 1.43 * Excludes police, police cadets, traffic wardens, police civilians staff of magistrates courts and probation and after care staff.