§ Lord Stoddart of Swindonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What is the number of home civil and public servants; and what is the cost to the United Kingdom of preparing and implementing European Union legislation including the costs of setting up enforcement agencies, whether self-financing or fully or partly financed by the public purse. [HL877]
§ Lord Falconer of ThorotonAt 1 April 1999 481,000 permanent staff were employed in the UK Civil Service (460,000 on a full-time equivalent basis). The latest figure available for the whole of the UK public sector is for 1998 and shows that 5,002,000 people were employed (4,110,000 on a full-time equivalent basis). Of these, 484,000 were permanent civil servants (463,000 on a full-time equivalent basis).
Information on the cost to the UK of preparing and implementing EU legislation is not held centrally.