§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state the total number of each of the various ranks employed on clerical work in the Exchequer and Audit Department, and also the total number of each rank employed on local audit, outside the head office, at the various Government offices in London, Devonport, Portsmouth, Chatham, Woolwich, and Pretoria.
§ (Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The following table gives the information for which the hon. Member asks as regards 1407 the permanent distribution of the staff; but I should observe that each year members of the staff are sent from head-
| Station. | Principal Clerks. | Senior Clerks. | Chief Examiners. | Examiners. | Abstractors. | Total. |
| Headquarters | 3 | 9 | 9 | 56 | 9 | 86 |
| Headquarters Colonial Audit Branch | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 | — | 18 |
| London—Admiralty | 1 | 3 | 4 | 17 | — | 25 |
| War Office | 1 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 1 | 32 |
| Post Office | — | 1 | 2 | 9 | — | 12 |
| South Kensington | — | 1 | 1 | 7 | — | 9 |
| Dover House | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 |
| New Scotland Yard | — | — | — | 2 | — | 2 |
| Chatham | — | — | 1 | 4 | — | 5 |
| Devonport | — | — | 1 | 4 | — | 5 |
| Portsmouth | — | — | 1 | 5 | — | 6 |
| Woolwich | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | 4 |
| South Africa, Pretoria | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | — | 5 |
| Totals | 6 | 18 | 29 | 148 | 10 | 211 |