§ MR. W. T. WILSON (Lancashire, Westhoughton)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether the three chief staff officers and the three staff officers (first class) in the Census of Production Office were in his Department previous to the establishment of the Census of Production Office; if they were not, which Department were they transferred from; and what were their positions previous to the transfer.
§ (Answered by Mr. Kearley.) The hon. Member is, I think, under a misapprehension. The three chief staff officers and three staff officers of the first class mentioned in the Estimates for 1907–8, page 121, to whom I assume that reference is made, are not employed in the office of the Census of Production, but in other branches of the Commercial, Labour, and Statistical Department of the Board of Trade.