asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the total number of local government employees in each year since 1960.
The attached table gives the combined totals of full and part-time employees in local authorities in England
general consent to the sale of subsidised new town housing at concessionary prices.
and Wales, including police, for the period since 1960. The numbers of police civilians, traffic wardens, police cadets, agency, magistrates' courts and probation staffs were not covered in surveys prior to 1975 and are therefore excluded from the table in order to provide a broadly comparable set of figures.
Mid-June
| Thousands
|
| 1960 | 1,532 |
| 1961 | 1,576 |
| 1962 | 1,638 |
| 1963 | 1,697 |
| 1964 | 1,772 |
| 1965 | 1,827 |
| 1966 | 1,919 |
| 1967 | 2,001 |
| 1968 | 2,069 |
| 1969 | 2,124 |
| 1970 | 2,162 |
| 1971 | 2,234 |
| 1972 | 2,340 |
| 1973 | 2,454 |
| 1974 | 2,443 |
| 1975 | 2,556 |
| 1976 | 2,574 |
| 1977 | 2,556 |
| 1978 | 2,568 |
| 1979 | 2,611 |