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Mr. Henderson
asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list by Department the number of civil servants employed in systems, programming and computer operating together with a note of the major applications processed in each case.
Mr. Charles R. Morris
The main administrative computer using departments together with the number of civil servants employed in systems, programming and computer operating, as at 31 March 1978, and the major applications processed in each case are are follows:
Department
| Total of system analysis, Programming and operating staff
| Major tasks
|
Export Credits Guarantee Department | 91 | Statistics, accounts, bank guarantees, long term credits |
General Register Office (Scotland) | 34 | Population statistics |
Department of Health and Social Security | 1,319 | Pension payments, payroll, statistics, family allowances, short term benefits, reconciliation, contribution records and graduated pensions, unemployment benefits payment, NHS superannuation, medical manpower statistics |
Home Office | 439 | Traffic tickets, police records, payroll, statistics, prison records, bureau work |
Department of Industry | 260 | Trade census statistics, Business Statistics Office |
Inland Revenue | 194 | PAYE assessment and collection, tax accounting |
Land Registry | 53 | Index of land charges |
Department fro National Savings | 445 | Savings Bank, Premium Savings Bonds and Stocks, National Savings Certificates |
Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys | 166 | Population census and survey analysis |
Ordnance Survey | 31 | General purpose, administration, cartographic |
Paymaster General's Office | 136 | Pension payments, banking |
Scottish Office | 131 | General ADP |
HM Stationery Office | 7 | Bookshop distribution system |
Department of Trade | 5 | Within Department of Industry |
Department of Transport | 288 | Vehicle registration and licensing, driver licensing, road accident statistics |
Her Majesty's Treasury (including Central Statistical Office) | 32 | Econometric modelling, statistical records and progress development, financial information system |