To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the responsibilities of each of the deputy secretaries in his Department and the numbers and ranks of staff reporting to each.

The responsibilities of the deputy secretaries and the numbers of their staff are as follows:

Responsibilities	Number of staff1
Broadcasting and miscellaneous department, equal opportunities and general department, immigration and nationality department, and passport department	5,100
Criminal justice and constitutional department, criminal policy department, research and statistics department	500
Establishment department, finance and manpower department, fire and emergency planning department	2,000
Legal adviser's branch	27
Police department	2,400
Prison service	32,400
1 To the nearest hundred, except for legal adviser's branch.

The deputy secretaries have staff reporting to them in a wide variety of grades; detailed information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.