§ Mr. HendersonTo ask the Attorney-General how many press officers there are in his Department currently; and what the figure was in 1979.
§ The Attorney-GeneralThere are currently eight press officers employed in the departments for which I am responsible. There were no such officers in 1979, on which date the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office, which currently employ six press officers and two press officers respectively, were not in existence.