asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list the number of posts in each Government Department which would be lost by the implementation of a policy of a 10 per cent., a 15 per cent. and a 20 per cent. reduction respectively, in the number of posts, detailing separately the number of assistant secretary and above posts involved.

Information about the size and deployment of the Civil Service is published in "Civil Service Statistics", a copy of which is available in the Library. Table 2 shows the number of staff in post by Department. Table 4 shows the number of staff in post in the main groups, classes and grades. A departmental analysis of posts cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.