HC Deb 16 February 1995 vol 254 cc761-2W
Mr. David Shaw

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the(a) population, (b) number of employees, (c) number of employees per 1,000 population and (d) political party in control in each local authority; and if he will post the answer on his Department's pages on the Government's world wide web server,"www.open.gov.uk".

Mr. Redwood

The latest available information is shown in the following table. Local authority staffing figures are maintained by the Local Government Management Board. There are currently no arrangements for providing the information in the way requested.

Population, number of staff employed and political control of each local authority in Wales
Population1 (000s) Total Staff Staff per 1,000 population Political control
County Councils
Clwyd 416 14,041 33.8 LAB
Dyfed 352 14,733 41.9 IND
Gwent 450 17,988 39.9 LAB
Gwynedd 240 9,342 38.9 IND
Mid Glamorgan 544 21,578 39.6 LAB
Powys 120 3— 3— IND
South Glamorgan 413 14,531 35.2 LAB
West Glamorgan 371 14,109 38.0 LAB
Borough/District Councils
Aberconwy 54 483 8.9 NOC
Alyn and Deeside 75 601 8.0 LAB
Arfon 57 561 9.9 PC
Blaenau Gwent 77 1,119 14.5 LAB
Brecknock 42 251 6.0 IND
Cardiff 299 3,630 12.2 LAB
Carmarthen 56 454 8.1 IND
Ceredigion 69 559 8.1 IND
Colwyn 57 465 8.2 LDEM
Cynon Valley 65 634 9.7 LAB
Delyn 70 661 9.4 IND
Dinefwr 39 246 6.4 LAB
Dwyfor 27 258 9.5 IND
Glyndwr 42 345 8.2 IND
Islwyn 67 736 11.0 LAB
Llanelli 74 732 9.9 LAB
Lliw Valley 65 568 8.8 LAB
Meirionnydd 33 349 10.7 PC
Merthyr Tydfil 60 771 12.9 LAB
Monmouth 78 570 7.3 CON
Montgomeryshire 54 460 8.5 IND
Neath 66 626 9.5 LAB
Newport 137 1,426 10.4 LAB
Ogwr 135 1,259 9.3 LAB
Port Talbot 51 533 10.4 LAB
Preseli Pembroke 71 585 8.3 IND
Radnorshire 24 207 8.5 IND
Rhondda 78 975 12.4 LAB
Rhuddlan 55 495 9 IND
Rhymney Valley 104 1,188 11.4 LAB
South Pembroke 43 331 7.7 IND
Swansea 189 2,528 13.4 LAB
Taff Ely 101 804 7.9 LAB
Torfaen 91 905 10.0 LAB
Vale of Glamorgan 115 868 7.6 LAB
Wrexham Maelor 117 1,297 11.1 LAB
Ynys Mon 69 536 7.7 IND
1 OPCS 1993 mid-year estimate.2 Joint staffing watch data, June 1994 (provisional) except for Aberconwy (March 1993 figure) and Cynon Valley (March 1994 provisional figure); number of persons, full or part-time, in general services (excluding law or order).
3 —denotes data not available for 1993 or 1994.

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