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Welsh Office

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Mr. David Shaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list in rank order the number of employees for each local authority per 1,000 of population for the most recent three years for which figures are available. [18096] Mr. Gwilym Jones: The information requested is given in the following tables: Number of local authority employees per 1000 of population, June 1993 {1} _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Counties {1} Total employees per 1,000 of Full-time employees per 1,000 Part-time employees per 1,000 population of population{2} of population{2} Clwyd 34.8 17.4 17.5 South Glamorgan 35.2 18.2 16.9 West Glamorgan 37.9 22.0 15.9 Gwynedd 38.2 20.0 18.2 Mid Glamorgan 39.2 22.1 17.1 Gwent 40.1 19.2 20.9 Dyfed 41.0 21.7 19.3 Districts{4} Brecknock 6.3 5.5 0.7 Dinefwr 6.6 6.3 0.4 Monmouth 7.5 5.9 1.6 Taff Ely 7.5 6.3 1.2 South Pembrokeshire 7.6 6.9 0.6 Ynys Mon 7.8 6.5 1.3 Alyn and Deeside 8.0 6.8 1.2 Carmarthen 8.0 6.8 1.2 Vale of Glamorgan 8.3 6.4 1.8 Preseli Pembrokeshire 8.3 7.4 0.8 Ceredigion 8.3 7.8 0.5 Glyndwr 8.5 6.3 2.2 Colwyn 8.6 6.7 1.9 Radnorshire 8.9 6.2 2.6 Lliw Valley 9.1 7.6 1.5 Rhuddlan 9.1 7.8 1.3 Montgomeryshire 9.2 5.8 3.4 Ogwr 9.2 7.1 2.1 Dwyfor 9.5 8.7 0.8 Neath 9.6 8.5 1.1 Cynon Valley 9.7 9.0 0.7 Arfon 9.9 8.7 1.2 Delyn 9.9 7.2 2.7 Torfaen 10.3 8.6 1.8 Newport 10.6 8.6 2.0 Islwyn 10.7 9.5 1.2 Wrexham Maelor 11.1 9.1 2.0 Meirionnydd 11.4 9.5 1.8 Rhymney Valley 11.7 8.9 2.8 Cardiff 11.8 8.3 3.5 Rhondda 12.6 9.9 2.8 Merthyr Tydfil 12.7 11.3 1.5 Swansea 13.5 12.5 1.0 Blaenau Gwent 14.2 12.4 1.9 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Authorities are ranked according to total employees (i.e. the sum of full-time and part-time) per 1000 population. {2} Full-time employees are those that work over 30 hours per week, part-time employees are those that work up to and including 30 hours per week. {3} Data for Powys are unavailable. {4} Data for Aberconwy, Llanelli and Port Talbot are unavailable. Number of local authority employees per 1000 of population, June 1994{1} _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total employees per 1,000 of Full-time employees per 1,000 Part-time employees per 1,000 population of population{2} of population{2} Counties{3} Clwyd 33.6 16.4 17.3 South Glamorgan 35.0 18.1 17.0 West Glamorgan 38.0 22.1 15.9 Gwynedd 38.9 20.1 18.8 Mid Glamorgan 39.6 21.9 17.7 Gwent 39.8 18.8 21.0 Dyfed 41.8 21.9 19.9 Districts{4} Brecknock 6.1 5.4 0.6 Dinefwr 6.3 6.0 0.4 Monmouth 7.1 5.7 1.4 Vale of Glamorgan 7.6 6.3 1.2 South Pembrokeshire 7.8 7.3 0.5 Taff Ely 7.8 6.6 1.2 Ynys Mo+n 7.8 6.4 1.4 Alyn and Deeside 8.0 6.7 1.2 Carmarthen 8.0 6.7 1.3 Ceredigion 8.0 7.6 0.5 Colwyn 8.1 6.6 1.5 Glyndwr 8.2 5.9 2.2 Preseli Pembrokeshire 8.2 7.3 0.9 Montgomeryshire 8.4 5.6 2.8 Radnorshire 8.6 6.1 2.5 Lliw Valley 8.8 7.7 1.1 Rhuddlan 9.0 7.8 1.2 Ogwr 9.3 7.2 2.1 Delyn 9.4 6.8 2.7 Dwyfor 9.5 8.6 0.8 Neath 9.6 8.3 1.3 Arfon 9.8 8.4 1.3 Llanelli 10.0 9.0 1.0 Torfaen 10.0 8.2 1.7 Newport 10.4 8.7 1.7 Port Talbot 10.4 8.8 1.6 Meirionnydd 10.8 9.2 1.5 Islwyn 11.0 9.2 1.8 Wrexham Maelor 11.0 9.2 1.9 Rhymney Valley 11.4 8.7 2.7 Cardiff 12.1 8.2 3.9 Rhondda 12.6 9.8 2.8 Merthyr Tydfil 13.0 11.5 1.4 Swansea 13.4 12.2 1.2 Blaenau Gwent 14.5 12.3 2.1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Authorities are ranked according to total employees (i.e. the sum of full-time and part-time) per 1000 population. {2} Full-time employees are those that work over 30 hours per week, part-time employees are those that work up to and including 30 hours per week. {3} Data for Powys are unavailable. {4} Data for Aberconwy and Cynon Valley are unavailable. Number of local authority employees per 1,000 of population, June 1995{1} _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Total employees per 1,000 of Full-time employees per 1,000 Part-time employees per 1,000 population of population{2} of population{2} Counties{3} Clwyd 33.5 16.3 17.1 South Glamorgan 36.0 18.0 17.9 Gwent 39.6 18.3 21.3 Gwynedd 40.2 20.1 20.1 Mid Glamorgan 41.6 22.6 19.1 Dyfed 42.5 22.1 20.3 Districts{4} Brecknock 6.3 5.5 0.8 Dinefwr 6.6 6.1 0.5 Monmouth 6.9 5.4 1.5 Vale of Glamorgan 7.2 5.7 1.5 Ynys Mo+n 7.4 5.9 1.5 Carmarthen 7.9 6.6 1.3 Alyn and Deeside 7.9 6.7 1.2 South Pembrokeshire 8.1 7.8 0.3 Glyndy+r 8.2 6.0 2.3 Taff Ely 8.3 6.7 1.6 Preseli Pembrokeshire 8.4 7.5 0.9 Colwyn 8.5 6.8 1.8 Radnorshire 8.6 6.0 2.6 Montgomeryshire 8.8 5.7 3.1 Lliw Valley 8.9 7.8 1.1 Dwyfor 9.2 8.4 0.8 Rhuddlan 9.3 7.6 1.7 Aberconwy 9.5 8.5 1.0 Llanelli 9.5 8.6 0.9 Ogwr 9.7 7.4 2.3 Arfon 9.9 8.4 1.6 Delyn 10.2 7.0 3.2 Neath 10.6 9.1 1.5 Rhymney Valley 10.7 8.6 2.1 Meirionnydd 10.7 9.2 1.6 Wrexham Maelor 10.9 8.9 2.0 Port Talbot 11.0 9.4 1.6 Islwyn 12.0 9.7 2.3 Newport 12.0 8.9 3.1 Cynon Valley 12.0 8.8 3.2 Cardiff 12.8 8.4 4.3 Swansea 13.1 11.9 1.2 Merthyr Tydfil 13.3 11.8 1.5 Rhondda 13.5 10.0 3.5 Blaenau Gwent 14.6 12.2 2.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Authorities are ranked according to total employees (i.e., the sum of full-time and part-time) per 1,000 population. {2} Full-time employees are those that work over 30 hours per week, part-time employees are those that work up to and including 30 hours per week. {3} Data for Powys and West Glamorgan are unavailable. {4} Data for Ceredigion and Torfaen are unavailable.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

18096; 291 c668-71W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Local government Staff Wales

Contains statistics

Yes