asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will bring up to date the table of Civil Service staff increases given in his reply to the hon. Member for Melton on 24th January; and if he will outline the legislative or policy reasons which caused a variation in manpower between 1st October 1976 and 1st January 1977 wherever applicable.
The number of staff in post as at 1st January 1977, by Department, is given below:
Department
| Non-Industrials
| Industrials
| Total
| |||||
| Home Office | … | … | … | … | … | 28,657 | 3,647 | 32,304 |
| Lord Chancellor's Office and Courts etc. | … | 9,945 | — | 9,945 | ||||
| Land Registry | … | … | … | … | … | 4,925 | 6 | 4,931 |
| Civil Service Department | … | … | … | 3,608 | 1,537 | 5,145 | ||
| Central Office of Information | … | … | … | 1,256 | 60 | 1,316 | ||
| HM Stationery Office | … | … | … | … | 3,285 | 3,982 | 7,267 | |
| Scottish Office | … | … | … | … | … | 9,839 | 693 | 10,532 |
| Department of Transport (including DVLD)≑ | … | 12,982 | 536 | 13,518 | ||||
| Scottish Courts Administration etc. | … | … | 767 | 4 | 771 | |||
| Department of Health and Social Security | … | 94,229 | 267 | 94,496 | ||||
| Office of Population Censuses and Surveys | … | 2,544 | 22 | 2,566 | ||||
| Department of Trade | … | … | … | … | 7,759 | 45 | 7,804 | |
| Department of Industry | … | … | … | … | 9,043 | 755 | 9,798 | |
| Department of Prices and Consumer Protection | 369 | — | 369 | |||||
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | … | … | 1,946 | — | 1,946 | |||
| Welsh Office | … | … | … | … | … | 1,556 | 2 | 1,558 |
| Ministry of Defence¶ | … | … | … | … | 127,003 | 134,246 | 261,249 | |
| All other Departments | … | … | … | … | 5,870 | 981 | 6,851 | |
| Total | … | … | … | … | … | 569,852 | 176,309 | 746,161 |
| NOTES—All figures include part-time staff counted as one half. | ||||||||
* Includes staff of the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce. | ||||||||
| † Includes staff of the Victoria and Albert and Science Museums. | ||||||||
| ‡ Includes staff of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, the Health and Safety Executive, the Manpower Services Commission and its Agencies. | ||||||||
| § Includes staff of the Property Services Agency. | ||||||||
| ¶ Includes staff of the Royal ordnance factories. | ||||||||
| ≑ The Department of Transport was set up on 8th November 1976. | ||||||||
The reasons for the significant increases were given in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Normanton on 23rd February 1977.—[Vol. 926, c. 580–82.]