HC Deb 19 February 1987 vol 110 cc829-30W
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, columns 678–9, 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. McGregor

[pursuant to his reply, 17 February 1987, c. 545]: The information is as follows:

Civil Service Trading Funds (Staff in Post, 1 April)
1985 1986
HMSO 3,463 3,378
The Crown Suppliers 1,934 1,938
Royal Mint 959 990
Royal Ordnance Factories — —

Royal Dockyards

Details of the total number of civilians serving in the Royal Dockyards at 1 April in the period 1970 to 1984 were provided to the hon. Member by my hon. Friend (Mr. John Lee) the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement in an Answer on 26 October 1984 (OR Vol. 65 cols. 739–40).

Comparable figures for 1 April 1985 and 1 April 1986 are as follows:

1985 1986
Portsmouth — —
Devonport 13,344 12,509
Chatham — —
Rosyth 6,421 6,240
Gibraltar — —
Malta — —
TOTAL 19,765 18,749

UKAEA and Ordnance Survey
Date UKAEA Ordnance Survey
1 April 1970 29,832 4,701
1 April 1971 119,802 4,655
Date UKAEA Ordnance Survey
1 April 1972 19.205 4,630
1 April 1973 213,077 4,656
1 April 1974 12,719 4,533
1 April 1975 13,025 4,566
1 April 1976 13,580 4,444
1 April 1977 13,282 4,147
1 April 1978 13,347 3,775
1 April 1979 13,579 3,586
1 April 1980 13,919 3,433
1 April 1981 14,422 3,364
1 April 1982 14,350 3,143
1 April 1983 14,354 2,964
1 April 1984 14,008 2,814
1 April 1985 13,762 2,962
1 April 1986 13,916 2,981
1 The following numbers of staff in brackets transferred on 1 April 1971 to British Nuclear Fuels (8,894), Amersham International (703) and the National Radiological Protection Board (28).
2 On 1 April 1973 5,560 staff transferred to the Ministry of Defence.