asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give a breakdown of the other public bodies to which staff from the Greater London council and metropolitan city councils transferred following abolition.
Staff were transferred statutorily at abolition from the Greater London council and metropolitan county councils to the bodies specified in the following orders made under the Local Government Act 1985:
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give a breakdown by residuary body of the total paid to date in detriment to staff transferred from the seven abolished authorities to successor bodies.
The information is as follows:
| Residuary Body | Compensation for Detriment paid up to 31 December 1986 |
| £ | |
| London | 695,000 |
| Greater Manchester | 5,631 |
| Merseyside | 96,400 |
| South Yorkshire | 645,389 |
| Tyne and Wear | 204,000 |
| West Midlands | 572,618 |
| West Yorkshire | 161,866 |
| Total | 2,380,904 |
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many additional staff were employed by central Government Departments following abolition of the Greater London council and the metropolitan county councils.
Much of the Department's work on matters arising from the abolition of the Greater London council and the metropolitan county councils is handled by staff within the appropriate policy areas or regional offices, and is not separately identifiable except at disproportionate cost. The number of staff currently employed centrally in the Department entirely on such matters is 17. The number of staff so employed in other Government Departments is a matter for the respective Secretaries of State.
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, if he will provide details of (a) the total number of staff declared redundant and (b) the total cost of redundancy pay for each of the authorities abolished by the Local Government Act 1985.
No record is held centrally of any staff having been declared redundant by the Greater London council or the metropolitan county councils in connection with the Local Government Act 1985. However, under that Act, all employees of those authorities who were in post on 31 March 1986 and who were not designated for transfer by order were treated as if they had been declared redundant by their employer immediately before the abolition date. Of those, 6,284 were entitled to redundancy payments or compensation. The details are as follows:
| Abolition Council | Number of former employees entitled to redundancy payments or compensation | 1Total costs to December 1986 |
| £ | ||
| Greater London | 3,188 | 21,851,333 |
| Greater Manchester | 637 | 6,739,798 |
| Merseyside | 370 | 3,520,174 |
| South Yorkshire | 480 | 3,421,137 |
| Tyne and Wear | 149 | 989,700 |
| West Midlands | 524 | 3,598,535 |
| West Yorkshire | 936 | 7,440,774 |
| 1 These figures include the costs of any redundancies among residuary bodies1 employees since 1 April 1986. | ||