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Mr. Jessel
asked the Minister of Overseas Development why it is proposed to move the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from London to Glasgow.
Mr. John Grant
The move was recommended, subject to any decision affecting the future of the directorate, in the Hardman Report. It forms part of the Government's programme of dispersal of some 31,000 Civil Service posts announced by my right hon. Friend the Lord President of the Council on 30th July 1974.