§ Mr. Steenasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list in the Official Report the relocation of civil servants into the core city areas in the last five years, showing which Department was so located; and how many civil servants were relocated in Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Coventry, Newcastle, Bradford, Leicester, Derby and Southampton, together with their former location.
§ Mr. ChannonInformation about the relocation of civil servants for management reasons is not held centrally and could not be obtained without incurring disproportionate costs. The table below shows the numbers of posts dispersed to the places listed by my hon. Friend since 1 April 1975. All these posts were formerly located in London.
locate there a number of short-term posts in the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (in connection with the 1981 census).