§ Mr. Woofasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people are employed in the social and welfare services to the latest available date.
§ Mr. Alec JonesI assume that my hon. Friend in referring to the local authority personal social services. Provisional returns show that there were some 165,000 members of staff, in whole-time equivalents, employed by local authority social services departments in England at 30th September 1974.