asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many civil servants in his Department are wholly or mainly employed in cost efficiency programmes or methods of improving manpower utilisation (a) within the Personnel and Administration Division and (b) elsewhere in his Department; and what were the comparable figures in March 1974.

It is the general responsibility of management at all levels in the Department to ensure the most efficient use of resources. The numbers of staff employed either wholly or mainly on duties concerned specifically with the improvement of cost efficiency and manpower utilisation in the Home Office (a) in Personnel and Administration Department and (b) elsewhere in the Department at the present time and in March 1974 are as follows:—