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Civil Service Pension Fund

Mrs. Lait: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what progress is being made on closing the Civil Service Pension Fund to new entrants; and if she will make a statement. [148902]

Mr. Stringer: Plans are progressing for the introduction of new pension arrangements for the Civil Service. Our intention is for new entrants to be given a choice between new defined benefit pension arrangements, and defined contribution arrangements whereby the employer will make contributions to a stakeholder pension selected by the employee from a panel of providers. Existing members of the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme will be given the choice of remaining with their current benefit structure or of paying the higher contributions associated with the new defined benefit arrangement. Our working assumption is for the new arrangements to be introduced from 1 October 2002.

Civil Service

Mr. Ernie Ross: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many staff, excluding those working for bodies responsible to the regional assemblies and the Scottish Parliament, are employed in the UK Civil Service, broken down by Department and place of employment. [148716]

Mr. Stringer: The numbers and location of all staff are shown in the table.

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Regional distribution of staff at 1 April 1999 by Government office region⁽²¹⁾Full-time equivalents

	Government office regions
Department (including agencies)	London	South East London	Total London and South East	South West	West Midland	North West	North East	Merseyside
Non-industrial staff
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	2,943	977	3,920	1,256	638	797	444	3
Cabinet Office	1,353	271	1,624	15	18	181	17	1
Crown Prosecution Service	1,311	514	1,825	338	534	649	240	201
Customs and Excise	5,553	3,725	9,278	954	1,011	1,548	530	1,061
Culture, Media and Sport	581	0	581	0	0	0	0	0
Defence	8,503	17,238	25,741	18,899	5,135	1,034	263	777
Education and Employment	7,122	2,140	9,262	2,247	2,529	4,200	2,425	95
Environment, Transport and Regions	3,846	1,340	5,186	1,699	990	1,064	244	75
Health and Safety Executive/Commission	681	154	835	73	165	137	0	1,225
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	4,641	0	4,641	0	0	0	0	0
Health	2,267	252	2,519	125	234	605	119	14
HM Land Registry	778	506	1,284	1,528	619	1,167	0	486
Home Office	5,804	1,077	6,881	212	625	377	65	717
HM Prison Service	4,561	6,164	10,725	2,560	3,292	3,770	2,712	716
Inland Revenue	8,419	6,290	14,709	3,906	3,956	5,497	6,938	2,797
International Development	689	0	689	0	0	0	0	0
Intervention Board	0	933	933	0	0	0	262	0
Lord Chancellor's Department	5,391	1,113	6,504	358	665	688	97	323
National Statistics	780	676	1,456	0	0	117	0	545
Ordnance Survey	12	1,438	1,450	60	51	41	18	11
Registers of Scotland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scottish Office	26	0	26	0	0	0	0	0
Scottish Prison Service	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Social Security	8,946	5,520	14,466	5,002	6,449	16,352	9,324	3,565
Trade and Industry	4,513	260	4,773	235	415	241	213	85
Treasury	890	0	890	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh Office	17	0	17	0	0	0	0	0
Royal Mint	16	0	16	0	0	0	0	0
Other Departments	3,523	103	3,626	5,079	389	121	74	192
All permanent non-industrial staff	83,166	50,691	133,857	44,546	27,715	38,586	23,985	12,889
Government office for the Regions(22)	229	140	369	159	165	215	149	35
Non-industrial casual staff(23)	2,717	1,476	4,193	1,023	1,091	2,133	1,103	495
Industrial staff
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Cabinet Office	398	0	398	0	1	31	0	0
Defence	650	5,445	6,095	3,978	2,934	391	309	80
Environment, Transport and Regions	11	12	23	13	16	20	7	10
Health	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	0
Home Office	9	9	18	41	4	6	0	0
HM Prison Service	186	456	642	254	313	306	163	25
Royal Mint	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scottish Office	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Social Security	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	0
Welsh Office	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other Departments	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
All permanent industrial staff	1,254	5,922	7,176	4,303	3,284	754	479	115
Industrial Casual Staff(23)	52.3	106.9	159.2	120.5	57	35.8	12.5	3.4
All Permanent Staff	84,420	56,613	141,033	48,849	30,999	39,340	24,464	13,004
All Staff	87,189	58,196	145,385	49,992	32,147	41,509	25,580	13,503

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⁽²¹⁾Full-time equivalents

	Government office regions
Department (including agencies)	Yorkshire and Humberside	East Midlands	Eastern	Wales	Scotland	Northern Ireland	Unreported and elsewhere	All areas
Non-industrial staff
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	1,447	364	909	399	260	0	18	10,455
Cabinet Office	0	0	191	0	15	0	5	2,067
Crown Prosecution Service	591	347	302	323	0	0	0	5,349
Customs and Excise	925	983	3,823	545	1,357	555	69	22,519
Culture, Media and Sport	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	581
Defence	2,072	1,651	5,340	2,425	6,292	1,486	3,376	74,491
Education and Employment	5,458	2,638	354	1,736	3,145	0	0	34,087
Environment, Transport and Regions	581	510	807	3,679	632	24	0	15,490
Health and Safety Executive/Commission	507	266	191	103	269	0	0	3,770
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	0	0	825	0	0	0	0	5,465
Health	1,127	29	10	0	0	0	9	4,791
HM Land Registry	435	842	817	608	0	0	0	7,786
Home Office	393	71	563	439	242	105	16	10,706
HM Prison Service	3,967	3,006	3,252	664	0	0	1,432	36,096
Inland Revenue	5,051	3,951	3,548	3,822	6,007	1,114	48	61,344
International Development	0	0	0	0	410	0	58	1,157
Intervention Board	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,195
Lord Chancellor's Department	414	391	565	229	2	0	0	10,234
National Statistics	0	0	0	794	0	0	0	2,911
Ordnance Survey	49	35	58	28	56	0	0	1,857
Registers of Scotland	0	0	0	0	1,130	0	0	1,130
Scottish Office	0	0	0	0	4,967	0	7	5,000
Scottish Prison Service	0	0	0	0	4,824	0	0	4,824
Social Security	7,080	3,402	3,273	3,811	8,845	9	7	81,585
Trade and Industry	288	173	200	1,660	218	6	9	8,516
Treasury	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	890
Welsh Office	0	0	0	2,127	0	0	0	2,144
Royal Mint	0	0	0	331	0	0	0	347
Other Departments	102	100	76	183	2,436	100	21	12,508
All permanent non-industrial staff	30,487	18,639	25,104	23,906	41,107	3,399	5,075	429,295
Government office for the Regions(22)	168.1	135	146.8	0	0	0	0	1,541.4
Non-industrial casual staff(23)	1,213	592	702	977	1,652	52	744	15,970
Industrial staff
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	0	0	19	5	0	0	15	40
Cabinet Office	3	0	0	12	0	0	0	445
Defence	1,047	1,009	1,143	2,669	2,997	1,700	1,989	26,341
Environment, Transport and Regions	23	14	29	10	15	0	0	180
Health	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
Home Office	3	0	5	3	0	0	0	80
HM Prison Service	295	266	276	66	0	0	17	2,623
Royal Mint	0	0	0	639	0	0	0	639
Scottish Office	0	0	0	0	294	0	0	294
Social Security	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
Welsh Office	0	0	0	62	0	0	0	62
Other Departments	3	8	0	0	0	0	0	11
All permanent industrial staff	1,374	1,297	1,472	3,466	3,306	1,700	2,021	30,747
Industrial Casual Staff(23)	60	50	49	92	90	10	80	819
All Permanent Staff	31,861	19,936	26,576	27,372	44,412	5,098	7,095	460,039
All Staff	33,134	20,578	27,328	28,441	46,155	5,161	7,919	476,831

⁽²¹⁾ Part-time staff are recorded according to the proportion of full-time hours worked.

⁽²²⁾ Included in departmental totals for DfEE, DETR and DTI.

⁽²³⁾ Regional figures are available only for casual staff from departments that report to Mandate. The unreported and Elsewhere and Total figures include staff not reported to Mandate.

Source:

Mandate and Departmental Returns.

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