HC Deb 17 February 1987 vol 110 cc544-5W
Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report a table updating the reply of 20 November 1984, columns 97–98, on the financial performance of Government trading funds.

Mr. MacGregor

I shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.

Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report a table updating the reply of 25 October 1984, columsn 678–79, on the numbers of employees in Government trading funds; if he will additionally provide comparable information on the royal dockyards, Ordnance Survey and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

Mr. MacGregor

I shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.

Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish an analysis of manpower reductions or changes in central Government trading funds for the years 1979–80 to 1985–86 using the same categories as in his Department's annual report on manpower reductions to the Treasury and Civil Service Committee.

Mr. MacGregor

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him on 25 October 1984 by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dover (Mr. Rees) at column678.

Annual reports to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee on manpower reductions in the Civil Service for the years 1984–85 and 1985–86 were not published by the Select Committee but copies were placed in the Library of the House for the convenience of hon. Members.