§ Mr. David Clarkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many officers in the Probation Service have left to join the local authority social service departments in the first three months of 1971, and what estimate he has made of those who will do so in the remainder of 1971.
§ Mr. MaudlingThe answer to the first part of the Question is 18, according to returns furnished by probation authorities; and to the second, that I have made no such estimate.