§ Mr. Proctorasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 24 May to the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. McQuarrie) if he will give a breakdown by rank of those 22 officials who left his Department on grounds of inefficiency; and in which Departments they worked immediately prior to leaving, setting out the information in such a manner as not to identify individual officers.
§ Mr. Hurd1 DS5, 1 principal, 1 DS8C, 1 DS8T, 2 DS9s, 2 DS9 equivalents, 5 DS10s, 2 clerical officers, 4 clerical assistants, 1 photo-printer and 2 other junior officers left the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on grounds of inefficiency in the period january 1980 to April 1982. It is not possible to indicate the Department or overseas post in which these officers last served without risk of revealing their identity.