§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total number of civil servants employed by(a) his Department, (b) the agencies under his Department's responsibility and (c) public and other bodies under his Department's responsibility, for each year since 1992, divided into (1) full-time equivalents, (2) overtime, (3) casuals and (4) other; and whether he will also provide for each year his estimates of (A) civil service job reductions due to privatisations, (B) civil service job reductions due to contracting out, (C) civil service job reductions resulting from other transfer of responsibilities, (D) the total of all other staff undertaking work for the Department or its agencies without being categorised as civil servants, including external consultants, researchers, agency secretarial staff and staff substitution and (E) total manpower expenditures, in 1994 prices. [15092]
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§ Mr. Lang[holding answer 20 March 1995]: The civil service covers the permanent staff of central Government Departments and next steps agencies. The staff of other bodies are outside the civil service.
Appendix 4 of the Scottish Office departmental report for 1995, CM 2814, gives details of the number of civil servants employed by the Scottish Office, its associated departments and agencies, including full-time equivalent staff and casuals—from 1993 onwards—while appendix 3 of the report gives details of civil service paybill. Equivalent information in respect of the Forestry Commission, for which I am also responsible, is given in table 13.3. of the report.
"Public Bodies", published annually since 1982, contains staffing information for those bodies not covered by civil service statistics.
The annual publication "Civil Service Statistics" gives details of the number of staff leaving the civil service. Copies of all of these publications are available in the Members' Library.
31 December 1979 31 December 1994 Force Police Civilians2 Police1 2Civilians Central 509 104 654 155 Dumfries and Galloway 311 60 390 124 Fife 671 111 789 219 Grampian 932 191 1,191 385 Lothian and Borders 2,342 640 2,556 902 Northern 603 135 643 243 Strathclyde 6,905 1,334 7,003 1,553 Tayside 941 208 1,087 320 Total 13,214 2,783 14,313 3,901 1 Includes officers on secondment to Central Services and Scottish Crime Squad. 2 Includes Taffic Wardens, Clerical and Technical Staff, but not Cleaning or Domestic Staff, or Cadets.