§ 32. Mr. LofthouseTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authority jobs have been lost as a result of the compulsory competitive tendering legislation under the Local Government Act 1988.
§ Mr. PortilloMy Department does not have this information for the generality of local authorities. Research carried out for my Department by the Institute of Local Government Studies at the university of Birmingham shows that significant reductions have been achieved in the level of manual staff engaged on activities subject to competition, largely without major redundancies.