§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide an analysis by Government Department of the change in Civil Service employment between mid 1979 and mid 1985.
§ Mr. BrookeThe table provides details of staff in post numbers for Government Departments at 1 July 1979 and 1 July 1985 and the changes between the two dates.
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Department SIP at 1 July 1979 SIP at 1 July 1985 Change Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service 819 627 -192 Department of Energy 1,257 1,063 -194 Department of the Environment (excluding PSA) 12,201 6,516 -5,685 Property Services Agency (excluding Crown Suppliers) 35,809 23,983 -11,826 Crown Suppliers (formerly PSA Supplies Division) 3,557 1,919 -1,638 Ordnance Survey 3,598 2,972 -626 Foreign and Commonwealth Office 9,703 8,170 -1,533 Overseas Development Administration 2,200 1,543 -657 Home Office 33,490 36,551 +3,061 Lord Chancellor's Department (including Public Trustees Office) 10,481 10,128 -353 Land Registry 5,551 6,918 +1,367 Public Record Office 420 397 -23 Northern Ireland Office 209 175 -34 Scottish Office (including Royal Scottish Museum) 10,992 10,039 -953 Exchequer Office, Scotland‡ 53 — -53 Scottish Courts Administration (including Lands Tribunal for Scotland) 843 879 +36 General Register Office, Scotland 380 262 -118 Registers of Scotland 443 847 +404 Scottish Record Office 133 127 -6 Department of Health and Social Security 97,539 92,085 -5,454 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 2,537 2,107 -430 Department of Trade and Industry 16,927 12,604 -4,323 Export Credits Guarantee Department 1,996 1,753 -243 Office of Fair Trading 293 306 +13 Office of Telecommunications — 83 +83 Department of Transport 13,698 14,366 +668 Welsh Office 2,595 2,276 -319 Cabinet Office (including Management and Personnel Office and Parliamentary Counsel)* 654 1,652 +998 Civil Service Department* 5,047 — -5,047 Charity Commission 322 317 -5 Crown Estate Office 121 29 -92 Director of Public Prosecutions 195 234 +39 Law Officers' Department 19 19 — Lord Advocate's Department 21 20 -1 Office of Arts and Libraries — 52 +52 Paymaster General's Office 868 853 -15 Privy Council Office 37 32 -5 Crown Office (Scotland) and Procurator Fiscal Service 771 980 +209 Treasury Solicitor's Department 437 437 — Civil Service Pay Research unit║ 62 — -62 Ministry of Defence¶ 244,859 172,981 -71,878 Total 723,747 596,163 -127,584 * In November 1981, the Civil Service Department was abolished, its functions and staff being redistributed between the Treasury and the Management and Personnel Office. † Accorded trustee status from 1 April 1984; thereafter excluded from the manpower count. ‡ Abolished 1 April 1981; staff reassigned to other departments. ║ Wound up 1 October 1981; staff reassigned to other departments. ¶ Royal Ordnance Factories incorporated as a Companies Act company on 2 January 1985; thereafter excluded from the Ministry of Defence manpower count.