HC Deb 18 February 1965 vol 706 cc241-2W
27. Dame Joan Vickers

asked the First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, if he is aware that certain standards require 10 square feet of office accommodation per person; in view of the fact that 80,000 square feet of office accommodation will be needed to house the new regional headquarters in the South-West Region, how many personnel will be required to run the region; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. William Rodgers

We now envisage that there will be between 300 and 350 staff in the new Regional Headquarters in the South-West. On the basis of Civil Service office standards, allowing for ancillary accommodation and some margin for expansion, our revised estimate is that we shall need up to 60,000 square feet.