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Mr. Gow
asked the Minister for the Civil Service how many industrial and how many non-industrial civil servants there were in the United Kingdom on the latest available date, and what were the equivalent figures for one, two, three and four years earlier.
Mr. Charles R. Morris
Totals of staff in post at 1st October in each year are as follows:
| Industrial | Non-Industrial | Total | |
| 1970 | 206,480 | 498,709 | 705,189 |
| 1971 | 198,975 | 500,895 | 699,870 |
| 1972 | 190,810 | 500,175 | 690,985 |
| 1973 | 185,198 | 509,894 | 695,092 |
| 1974 | 176,868 | 510,314 | 687,182 |