asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list in the Official Report the total number of public service jobs, both manual and non-manual, which have either been dispersed to, or created in, the various regions of the country since 1945, giving in each case (1) the name of the recipient city or town in each region, (2) the name of the transferred or created Department, (3) the number of jobs involved, (4) net cost to
| NORTHERN REGION (Population 3·126 million) | |||||
| Department | Location | Number | |||
| Posts dispersed | |||||
| Ministry of Defence | … | … | Carlisle | … | 71 |
| Department of Education and Science | … | … | Darlington | … | 640 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Newcastle | … | 109 |
| Gateshead | … | 266 | |||
| Middlesbrough | … | 195 | |||
| Sunderland | … | 40 | |||
| Washington | … | 134 | |||
| Department for National Savings | … | … | Durham | … | 1,835 |
| Posts established in new offices | |||||
| Department of Health and Social Security | … | … | Billingham | … | 35 |
| Washington | … | 44 | |||
| Her Majesty's Stationery Office | … | … | Gateshead | … | 402 |
| Department of Industry | … | … | Billingham | … | 130 |
| Land Registry | … | … | Durham | … | 255 |
| Total for Northern Region | … | … | … | … | 4,156 |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 3,860 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 4,051 |
| YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE (Population 4·894 million) | |||||
| Department | Location | Number | |||
| Posts dispersed | |||||
| Ministry of Defence | … | … | Harrogate | … | 277 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Leeds | … | 134 |
| Bradford | … | 252 | |||
| Sheffield | … | 85 | |||
| Shipley | … | 366 | |||
| Total for Yorkshire and Humberside | … | … | … | 1,114 | |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 1,700 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 850 |
the Government and (5) the number of jobs allocated to each region, calculated on a per head of population basis.
The information below covers Civil Service work dispersed from London since May 1963—when comprehensive records were first started, following the Flemming Report—and Civil Service posts established in new offices as a result of the policy, initiated in 1965, of setting up new work away from London wherever possible. Estimates of the costs and benefits broken down between regions are not readily available and would involve disproportionate work to prepare. Further plans for dispersal, including the decisions announced by the Lord President of the Council on 30th July 1974, and further posts to be established in new offices, are also shown. The information for each English region and for Scotland and Wales is as follows:
| NORTH-WEST (Population 6·577 million) | |||||
Department
| Location | Number
| |||
Posts dispersed
| |||||
| Charity Commission | … | … | Liverpool | … | 104 |
| Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) | … | Liverpool | … | 75 | |
| Department of Health and Social Security | … | … | Blackpool | … | 113 |
| Fleetwood | … | 331 | |||
| Department of Employment | … | … | Runcorn | … | 600 |
| Department of Energy | … | … | Liverpool | … | 36 |
| Department of the Environment | … | … | Liverpool | … | 233 |
| Home Office | … | … | Manchester | … | 2 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Bootle | … | 210 |
| Manchester | … | 2,508 | |||
| Crewe | … | 23 | |||
Posts established in new offices
| |||||
| Department of Health and Social Security | … | … | Fleetwood | … | 69 |
| Blackpool | … | 25 | |||
| Preston | … | 21 | |||
| Department of Industry | … | … | Bootle | … | 109 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Liverpool | … | 15 |
| Land Registry | … | … | Lytham | … | 635 |
| Total for North West | … | … | … | … | 5,109 |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 4,537 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 610 |
| EAST MIDLANDS (Population 3·728 million) | |||||
Department
| Location
| Number
| |||
Posts dispersed
| |||||
| Department of Energy | … | … | Leicester | … | 50 |
| Home Office | … | … | Corby | … | 123 |
Posts established in new offices
| |||||
| Land Registry | … | … | Nottingham | … | 509 |
| Total for East Midlands | … | … | … | … | 682 |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 3 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 381 |
| WEST MIDLANDS (Population 5·178 million) | |||||
Department
| Location
| Number
| |||
Posts dispersed
| |||||
| Ministry of Defence | … | … | Worcester | … | 231 |
| Home Office | … | … | Birmingham | … | 3 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Stoke-on-Trent | … | 45 |
| Total for West Midlands | … | … | … | … | 279 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 200 |
| EAST ANGLIA (Population 1·780 million) | |||||
Department
| Location
| Number
| |||
Posts dispersed
| |||||
| Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | … | Cambridge | … | 41 | |
| Her Majesty's Stationery Office | … | … | Norwich | … | 1,103 |
| Passport Office | … | … | Peterborough | … | 89 |
| Total for East Anglia | … | … | … | … | 1,233 |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 794 |
| SOUTH-WEST (Population 4·233 million) | |||||
Department
| Location
| Number
| |||
Posts dispersed
| |||||
| Ministry of Defence | … | … | Taunton | … | 248 |
| Gloucester | … | 34 | |||
| Bath | … | 240 | |||
| Blandford | … | 14 | |||
| Devizes | … | 20 | |||
| Department of the Environment | … | … | Bristol | … | 16 |
| Home Office | … | … | Bristol | … | 3 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Plymouth | … | 50 |
| Exeter | … | 30 | |||
| Countryside Commission | … | … | Cheltenham | … | 100 |
| Natural Environmental Research Council | … | … | Swindon | … | 48 |
| Land Registry | … | … | Plymouth | … | 292 |
| Science Research Council | … | … | Swindon | … | 121 |
| Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) | … | Portland | … | 14 | |
Posts established in new offices
| |||||
| Land Registry | … | … | Gloucester | … | 621 |
| Plymouth | … | 251 | |||
| Total for South-West | … | … | … | … | 2,102 |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 1,808 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 828 |
| SOUTH-EAST (Population 16·936 million) | |||||
Department
| Location
| Number
| |||
Posts dispersed
| |||||
| Civil Service Department | … | … | Basingstoke | … | 748 |
| Sunningdale | … | 47 | |||
| Crown Estate Office | … | … | Bracknell | … | 40 |
| Her Majesty's Customs and Excise | … | … | Southend | … | 1,186 |
| Rayleigh | … | 15 | |||
| Ministry of Defence | … | … | Portsmouth | … | 5 |
| Ministry of Defence (Procurement Executive) | … | Reading | … | 18 | |
| Farnborough | … | 70 | |||
| Bedford | … | 30 | |||
| Employment Services Agency | … | … | Basingstoke | … | 49 |
| Colchester | … | 43 | |||
| Eastbourne | … | 31 | |||
| Department of the Environment | … | … | Crowthorne | … | 568 |
| Hastings | … | 755 | |||
| Hemel Hempstead | … | 43 | |||
| Department of Health and Social Security | … | … | Basingstoke | … | 290 |
| Southampton | … | 79 | |||
| Home Office | … | … | Banbury | … | 34 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Portsmouth | … | 275 |
| Southampton | … | 247 | |||
| Worthing | … | 384 | |||
| Office of Population Censuses and Surveys | … | … | Titchfield | … | 180 |
| Ordnance Survey | … | … | Southampton | … | 700 |
| Paymaster General's Office | … | … | Crawley | … | 606 |
| Her Majesty's Stationery Office | … | … | Basildon | … | 488 |
| Training Services Agency | … | … | Basingstoke | … | 104 |
Posts established in new offices
| |||||
| Civil Service College | … | … | Sunningdale | … | 129 |
| Her Majesty's Customs and Excise | … | … | Southend | … | 1,307 |
| Department of Health and Social Security | … | … | Reading | … | 127 |
| Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce | … | Reading | … | 403 | |
| Land Registry | … | … | Stevenage | … | 494 |
| Tunbridge Wells | … | 690 | |||
| Total for South-East | … | … | … | … | 10,185 |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 1,583 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 206 |
| SCOTLAND (Population 5·206 million) | |||||
Department
| Location
| Number
| |||
Posts dispersed
| |||||
| Department for National Savings—National Savings Bank | Glasgow | … | 4,740 | ||
| Forestry Commission | … | … | Edinburgh | … | 145 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Edinburgh | … | 1,152 |
Posts established in new offices
| |||||
| Civil Service Department | … | … | Edinburgh | … | 135 |
| Department of Energy | … | … | Glasgow | … | 121 |
| Department of Industry | … | … | Glasgow | … | 160 |
| Total for Scotland | … | … | … | … | 6,453 |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 8,330 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 850 |
| WALES (Population 2·765 million) | |||||
Department
| Location
| Number
| |||
Posts dispersed
| |||||
| Inland Revenue | … | … | Cardiff | … | 50 |
| Newport | … | 80 | |||
| Pontypridd | … | 32 | |||
| Royal Mint | … | … | Llantrisant | … | 989 |
| Passport Office | … | … | Newport | … | 87 |
| Departments of Trade and Industry | … | … | Cardiff/Newport | … | 1,214 |
Posts established in new offices
| |||||
| Department of the Environment | … | … | Newtown | … | 6 |
| Swansea | … | 4,872 | |||
| Department of Industry | … | … | Cardiff | … | 152 |
| Land Registry | … | … | Swansea | … | 142 |
| Total for Wales | … | … | … | … | 7,624 |
| Further posts to be dispersed | … | … | … | … | 7,388 |
| Further posts to be established in new offices | … | … | … | … | 2,446 |
Note: Posts which have been, or are being, established in new offices and which, although benefiting a particular location, do not represent a net gain to a region, have been excluded.