To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will provide a breakdown of the estimated civil service staff (a) reductions and (b) relocations within his Department and its business units in each of the next four years, as set out in the Spending Review.

Following the Spending Review announcement, detailed business and staffing plans continue to be developed across all parts of the Department in order to manage the reduction of 30,000 posts by March 2008, and the planned relocation of work from London and the south east. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made a written statement to the House on 29 June outlining the first phase of this transformation. We will inform the House as further planning decisions are made.