§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister for the Civil Service what is his estimate of the minimum numbers of civil servants required to carry out the tasks allotted to the Civil Service.
§ Mr. Shore:I would refer to the reply my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave on 14th April about Civil Service non-industrial staff numbers in the present year. The figures in that answer represent our estimate of Departments' staffing needs for the work to be done.—[Vol. 799, c. 219.]