Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1983.
Good progress is being made, as is shown in a report on our interchange programme, which I am placing in the Library' of the House, but of course we always welcome further opportunities. The results for 1982 are very encouraging. The total number of secondments continues to grow, and rose by 20 per cent. between 1981 and 1982 to very nearly double the level when the initiative was launched in 1977.