HC Deb 13 July 1992 vol 211 c474W
Mr. Betts

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what assessment she has made of the number of civil servants in her Department who could be relocated to provincial centres as part of the policy of devolving and decentralising Government Departments.

Mr. McLoughlin

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Roxborough and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) on 6 November 1989,Official Report, columns 471–72.