To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what proportion of posts in her Department were recategorised from back office to frontline posts as classified by the Gershon efficiency review in each year since 2004. (172249)

The Department for Communities and Local Government is committed to achieving work force reductions of 400 full-time equivalents by the end of 2007-08. This is a net target and no posts will be reallocated to the frontline as part of it.