asked the Minister for the Civil Service how many redundancies he expects will result from the implementation of his statement of 6 December on Civil Service cuts; and whether any of these will be compulsory.
The Government's aim is to secure the reductions in Civil Service manpower, which will take place over the next three years, by natural wastage as far as practicable.
asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will give the number of persons who will now be made redundant in the various Civil Service departments, respectively, in Carlisle and Cumbria as a result of the measures
| Cost (at 1979 survey prices) | Staff numbers (approximate) | ||||||||||
| £ million | Per cent. | Per cent. | |||||||||
| Ministry of Defence | … | … | … | … | … | … | 41·0 | 3·0 | 7,500 | 3·2 | |
| Foreign and Commonwealth Office | … | … | … | 6·0 | 4·2 | 425 | 5·1 | ||||
| Overseas Development Agency | … | … | … | … | 2·1 | 10·0 | 235 | 9·4 | |||
| Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | … | … | 4·1 | 4·1 | 470 | 3·2 | |||||
| Department of Industry | … | … | … | … | … | 7·9 | 13·5 | 1,290 | 13·3 | ||
| Department of Trade | … | … | … | … | … | 3·1 | 6·3 | 455 | 5·9 | ||
| Office of Fair Trading | … | … | … | … | … | 0·3 | 15·0 | 70 | 21·5 | ||
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | … | … | … | 0·8 | 7·1 | 145 | 7·1 | ||||
| Department of Energy | … | … | … | … | … | 1·0 | 10·2 | 145 | 10·7 | ||
| Department of Employment | … | … | … | … | 10·9 | 10·4 | 2,575 | 10·0 | |||
| Manpower Service Commission | … | … | … | … | 20·2 | 12·9 | 3,400 | 12·7 | |||
| Health and Safety Executive | … | … | … | … | 2·2 | 5·9 | 260 | 5·9 | |||
| Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service | … | … | 1·0 | 12·7 | 100 | 11·4 | |||||
| Department of Transport | … | … | … | … | … | 13·1 | 17·7 | 2,480 | 17·1 | ||
| Department of Environment and Ordnance Survey | … | 9·9 | 10·0 | 1,620 | 9· | ||||||
| Property Services Agency | … | … | … | … | … | 29·2 | 10·4 | 4,730 | 9·9 | ||
| Home Office | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 2·9 | 1·2 | 460 | 1·2 |
| Lord Chancellor's Departments | … | … | … | … | 1·9 | 2·1 | 450 | 2·5 | |||
| Department of Education and Science | … | … | … | … | 1·0 | 5·1 | 155 | 5·7 | |||
| Department of Health and Social Security | … | … | … | … | 8·3 | 1·8 | 1,705 | 1·7 | |||
| Office of Population Censuses and Surveys | … | … | … | … | 1·3 | 9·7 | 275 | 9·0 | |||
| H.M. Treasury | … | … | … | … | … | … | 0·4 | 4·7 | 40 | 3·3 | |
| Customs and Excise | … | … | … | … | … | … | 2·3 | 1·4 | 465 | 1·5 | |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | … | … | … | … | 19·0 | 4·8 | 5,515 | 6·5 | |
| Department of National Savings | … | … | … | … | 4·4 | 10·0 | 1,070 | 10·0 | |||
| Civil Service Department | … | … | … | … | … | 2·3 | 10·5 | 280 | 5·1 | ||
announced on 6 December; and if he will make a statement.
The Government's aim is to secure the reductions in Civil Service manpower by natural wastage as far as practicable. These reductions will take place over the next three years and it is too early to say whether there will need to be any redundancies in particular areas of the country.
asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will tabulate the percentage savings, in numbers and in salary costs, respectively, in Civil Service employment for each Department following his statement of 6 December and the date by which they are to be achieved, together with the aggregate savings percentage in numbers and in salary costs.
The table below shows the percentage savings in Civil Service staff costs and numbers by Departments and in aggregate. Some £200 million of these savings or approximately 37,000 staff should be achieved by the financial year 1982–83 and almost all of the remainder by 1983–84.
Cost (at 1979 survey prices)
| Staff numbers (approximate)
| |||||||
| £ million | Per cent. | Per cent.
| ||||||
| Central Office of Information | … | … | … | … | 0·8 | 10·0 | 140 | 10·4 |
| H.M. Stationery Office | … | … | … | … | 4·0 | 9·9 | 900 | 12·0 |
| Scottish Office | … | … | … | … | 3·9 | 5·8 | 690 | 5·5 |
| Forestry Commission | … | … | … | … | 1·5 | 3·5 | 240 | 2·9 |
| Welsh Office | … | … | … | … | 1·6 | 9·1 | 235 | 8·6 |
| Northern Ireland Office | … | … | … | … | 0·7 | 1·6 | 120 | 2·5 |
| Other Departments | … | … | … | … | 3·1 | 5·5 | 325 | 3·5 |
| TOTAL | … | … | … | … | 212·2 | 5·0 | 38,965 | 5·1 |