§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Minister for the Civil Service how many civil servants at the latest and most convenient stated date have resigned since the industrial dispute in the Civil Service to take up employment in private industry; and how many of these have given as their reasons the salaries and working conditions being inferior to those which they are able to enjoy in their new private employment.
§ Mr. HayhoeThe number of civil servants who have resigned since the start of the industrial dispute is not yet known. Information is not held centrally on the reasons for resignation.