§ Sir Irvine PatnickTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many full-time equivalent employees there are(a) in total and (b) per head of population in the service of each metropolitan district. [10430]
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§ Mr. CurryThe available information is as follows. The levels of employment in individual authorities are not directly comparable because of variations in, for example, population structure and social characteristics, the extent of the use of private firms and contractors and the level of work undertaken for other authorities and public bodies on an agency basis.
Staff at June 1995 Whole-time equivalents Staff per thousand population Barnsley 8,056 35.6 Birmingham 35,755 35.5 Bolton 9,335 35.2 Bradford 16,133 33.5 Bury 5,097 28.0 Calderdale 1— 1— Coventry 10,953 36.2 Doncaster 9,753 33.3 Dudley — — Gateshead 8,269 40.9 Kirklees 12,530 32.4 Knowsley 5,491 35.7 Leeds 23,964 33.1 Liverpool — — Manchester 20,726 48.1 Newcastle upon Tyne — — North Tyneside — — Oldham 7,435 33.7 Rochdale 7,010 33.8 Rotherham 8,250 32.2 Salford 9,210 39.9 Sandwell 10,543 35.9 Sefton — — Sheffield 17,169 32.4 Solihull 5,536 27.4 South Tyneside 5,828 37.2 St. Helens 5,961 32.9 Stockport 7,588 26.0 Sunderland 11,010 37.0 Tameside 6,963 31.4 Trafford 5,753 26.4 Wakefield 11,822 37.3 Walsall 8,908 33.8 Wigan 8,238 26.6 Wirral 10,121 30.4 Wolverhampton 9,206 37.6 1 Data not available. Source:
Joint Staffing Watch, June 1995. Figures are for staff in general services—i.e. excluding law and order services.