§ Mr. Arnoldasked the Prime Minister, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Hazel Grove on 20 January, Official Report, c. 175–76, what were the principal duties within the diplomatic service to which the 44 civil servants from the Home Office and the seven civil servants from the Department of Employment have been loaned since May 1979.
§ The Prime MinisterThe 44 civil servants from the Home Office have all been employed in immigration and visa work in diplomatic service posts overseas, 39 of them dealing with entry clearance work in the Indian Subcontinent. Of the seven civil servants from the Department of Employment, five have worked as labour attaches in posts overseas and two have been employed in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office—one as overseas labour adviser and one in news department.