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TO IMMEDIATE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELEGRAM NUMBER 366 OF 1 APRIL, 1981.

YOUR TELNO 327: NATIONALITY BILL: P.Q. ON CROWN SERVICE BY

MR. JOHN TILLEY

1. THE FIGURES RELATING TO PEOPLE IN THE CROWN SERVICE ARE AS

FOLLOWS:-

(A) NUMBER OF NON INDUSTRIAL CIVIL SERVANTS

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76,345

(ALL CIVIL SERVANTS OTHER THAN THOSE UNDER (B) AND (C) BELOW

AS AT 1.1.81.

(B) INDUSTRIAL CIVIL SERVANTS (1.E. MODEL PAY SCALE | STAFF)

AS AT 1.1.81

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39,300

(C) DISCIPLINED OFFICERS AND RANK AND FIL AT RHKPF AS AT 1.1.81 20,363

TOTAL NUMBER OF CIVIL SERVANTS AS AT 1.1.81 ((A) + (B) + (C)

136,008

(THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE IN CATEGORY A AND THOSE IN CATEGORY B IS THAT THE FORMER WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS ARE ON THE PERMANENT AND PENSIONABLE ESTABLISHMENT WHILE THE LATTER ARE ALL EMPLOYED ON MONTH-TO-MONTH TERMS).

(D) MEMBERS OF AUXILIARY FORCES AS AT 1.4.81 (ABOUT 35% OF WHOM ARE CIVIL SERVANTS).

15,094

(IN THE ABSENCE OF A CLEAR DEFINITION OF CROWN SERVICE, MEMBERS

OF THE AUXILIARY FORCES ARE INCLUDED EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE EMPLOYED

ON A PART-TIME VOLUNTEER BASIS).

(E) THERE ARE 28 UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS.

(F) NUMBERS OF MEMBERS ON STATUTORY BOARDS (103 INALL) NOT READILY AVAILABLE, THOUGH NONE OF THEM IS APPOINTED BY OR ON

BEHALF OF THE CROWN.

MACLEHOSE

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ARGO (4)

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