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Mr. Marlow
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the total full-time equivalent number of employees and the figure as a percentage of local population in descending percentage numbers for (a) each shire county and (b) each metropolitan county.
Mr. Waldegrave
Information about the full-time equivalent number of employees is not available centrally for individual local authorities. Information relating to full-time employees is as follows:
| Full-time staff* | Full time staff as percentage of local population | |
| Metropolitan counties | ||
| South Yorkshire | 4,601 | 0·35 |
| West Yorkshire | 6,394 | 0·31 |
| Merseyside | 4,333 | 0·29 |
| Tyne and Wear | 3,176 | 0·28 |
| Greater Manchester | 6,081 | 0·23 |
| West Midlands | 5,444 | 0·21 |
| Shire counties | ||
| Cleveland | 14,069 | 2·49 |
| Durham | 14,281 | 2·36 |
| Nottinghamshire | 23,008 | 2·32 |
| Northumberland | 6,512 | 2·16 |
| Cumbria | 10,391 | 2·15 |
| Leicestershire | 18,352 | 2·12 |
| Humberside | 18,069 | 2·11 |
| Lancashire | 28,370 | 2·04 |
| Isle of Wight | 2,427 | 2·02 |
| Staffordshire | 20,302 | 1·99 |
| Derbyshire | 18,078 | 1·98 |
| Avon | 18·296 | 1·96 |
| Cheshire | 18,220 | 1·92 |
| Northamptonshire | 10,324 | 1·90 |
| Hertfordshire | 18,265 | 1·88 |
| Bedfordshire | 9,577 | 1·86 |
| Shropshire | 7,140 | 1·85 |
| Gloucestershire | 9,282 | 1·83 |
| Hereford and Worcestershire | 11,545 | 1·80 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 7,752 | 1·78 |
| Devon | 17,144 | 1·77 |
| North Yorkshire | 12,019 | 1·76 |
| Somerset | 7,680 | 1·76 |
| Berkshire | 12,513 | 1·75 |
| Cambridgeshire | 10,617 | 1·74 |
| Lincolnshire | 9,627 | 1·73 |
| Wiltshire | 9,065 | 1·70 |
| Warwickshire | 8,164 | 1·70 |
| Buckinghamshire | 10,131 | 1·69 |
| Oxfordshire | 9,331 | 1·68 |
| East Sussex | 11,394 | 1·68 |
| Hampshire | 24,669 | 1·65 |
Full-time staff *
| Full time staff as percentage of local population
| |
| Kent | 24,249 | 1·62 |
| Norfolk | 11,438 | 1·60 |
| Dorset | 9,777 | 1·59 |
| Suffolk | 9,820 | 1·59 |
| Essex | 23,591 | 1·57 |
| Surrey | 14,664 | 1·43 |
| West Sussex | 9,766 | 1·43 |
* Excludes police, police cadets, traffic wardens, police civilians staff of magistrates courts and probation and after care staff. | ||