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Mr. Sainsbury
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many civil servants in his Department are wholly or mainly employed in cost efficiency programmes or methods of impoving manpower utilisation (a) within Establishment and Personnel Divisions 1 and II and (b) elsewhere in his Department; and what were the comparable figures in March 1974.
Mr. Deakins
It is a primary function of management at all levels to secure efficiency in costs and manpower, but the numbers of specialised staff, in such units as Staff Inspection, Operational Research and Organisation and Methods, in post and concerned with this work were as follows:
| May | March | |
| 1977 | 1974 | |
| Establishments & Personnel Divisions I and II | 110 | 113 |
| Elsewhere in the Department | 220 | 200 |