Abstract
In Britain the standard definition of a civil servant is still the one which was formulated by the Tomlin Commission in 1931, namely ‘a servant of the Crown employed in a civil capacity who is paid wholly and directly from money voted by Parliament’.1 In April 1990 this definition covered about 562 000 people in all. Of this total about 69 000 were industrial civil servants employed principally by the Ministry of Defence and other government agencies. The remaining 493 000 were non-industrial civil servants, about one-quarter of whom worked in central London while the other three-quarters worked in the other offices of central government in all parts of the country.
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Forman, F.N. (1991). The civil service. In: Mastering British politics. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11203-6_14
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