To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of the total number of staff employed by each county council in 1981–82 and in 1989–90 or the latest year for which figures are available and the percentage change in the number employed between these dates.

The information requested is as follows:

Authority	Staff numbers		Percentage Change
	June 1981	June 1989
Avon	33,779	33,642	-0·4
Bedfordshire	20,107	19,876	-1·1
Berkshire	22,655	23,136	2·1
Buckinghamshire	20,540	21,905	6·6
Cambridgeshire	20,364	22,295	9·5
Cheshire	35,617	36,720	3·1
Cleveland	24,041	26,424	9·9
Cornwall and Scilly	13,621	15,514	13·9
Cumbria	18,192	19,029	4·6
Derbyshire	35,368	43,186	22·1
Devon	31,169	32,494	4·3
Dorset	17,777	19,524	9·8
Durham	23,488	24,690	5·1
East Sussex	22,065	21,716	-1·6
Essex	48,449	53,085	9·6
Gloucestershire	18,214	18,380	0·9
Hampshire	48,669	51,152	5·1
Hereford and Worcester	21,976	20,233	-7·9
Hertfordshire	37,894	137,667	1 -0·6
Humberside	33,229	36,026	8·4
Isle of Wight	4,134	4,211	1·9
Kent	45,903	43,040	-6·2
Lancashire	50,075	53,452	6·7
Leicestershire	28,444	33,278	17·0
Lincolnshire	17,347	17,322	-0·1
Norfolk	22,043	24,183	9·7
Northamptonshire	17,823	21,039	18·0
Northumberland	11,548	12,007	4·0
North Yorkshire	23,896	24,967	4·5
Nottinghamshire	35,332	39,028	10·5
Oxfordshire	18,604	16,796	-9·7
Shropshire	13,804	15,058	9·1
Somerset	14,572	17,546	20·4
Staffordshire	38,593	39,650	2·7
Suffolk	19,656	21,267	8·2
Surrey	28,263	26,350	-6·8
Warwickshire	17,873	18,456	3·3
West Sussex	20,039	21,693	8·3
Wiltshire	19,179	20,805	8·5
1 June 1988 data used.
Source: Joint Staffing Watch for England

The figures above are for general services only; they do not include law and order services. In some of the non-metropolitan counties the police function is carried out by a joint police authority.