HC Deb 08 December 1975 vol 902 cc38-9W
Mr. Wigley

asked the Lord President of the Council how many copies of the White Paper on Devolution were printed in English and how many in Welsh.

Mr. Edward Short

25,000 copies were printed in English and 1,125 in Welsh.

Mr. Wigley

asked the Lord President of the Council how many of the 1,600 additional Civil Service jobs in Wales, forecast to be created as the result of establishing the National Assembly, will, in fact, be constituted by work currently undertaken outside Wales; and what is the estimated gross reduction of Civil Service jobs outside Wales to be offset against these increases.

Mr. Edward Short

The White Paper says that broadly the extra staff in Wales might be around 600 initially, rising thereafter to about 1,600. It indicates that it is not possible to estimate all the effects, even broadly, on Government Departments outside Wales but that there ought to be net savings in these Departments. At this stage I cannot add to the White Paper.