§ Mr. Formanasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government accept the recommendations of the Wardale report on the open structure in the Civil Service; and whether any action has been taken to implement it.
§ Mr. HayhoeI refer my hon. Friend to the Chief Secretary's reply to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Sir A. Costain) on 29 July 1982.—[Vol. 28, c.613.] Departments are well on course, 70 per cent. of the reductions which the Chief Secretary forecast having been made by 1 January 1983.