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Mr. John Townend
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of civil servants in his Department on 1 January 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980; and what plans he has for reductions in numbers during 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983.
Mr. Whitelaw
I refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Scunthorpe (Mr. Brown) on 21 April. [Vol. 983, c. 6.] The number of staff in post in the Home Office at the beginning of each of the years in question was as follows:—
| 1975 | … | … | … | … | 30,287 |
| 1976 | … | … | … | … | 32,528 |
| 1977 | … | … | … | … | 32,304 |
| 1978 | … | … | … | … | 32,952 |
| 1979 | … | … | … | … | 33,531 |
| 1980 | … | … | … | … | 33,680 |