§ Dame Elaine Kellett-BowmanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many staff are employed by(a) Lancashire and (b) Gloucestershire county councils; what these figures are as a proportion of the population of the county councils.
§ Mr. Robert B. JonesLancashire county council employed 47,162 full-time and part-time staff in general services in June 1993—the latest available data for Lancashire; this represents 33.2 staff per thousand head of population. The comparable figures for Gloucestershire for June 1993 were 12,560 staff and 23.1 staff per thousand head of population; for June 1994 they were 11,417 staff and 21.0 staff per thousand head of population.