2. Mr. JARRETTasked the President of the Board of Trade the number of persons employed by the Clearing Office (Enemy Debts) in London and elsewhere; the approximate total annual amount of salaries and wages; and how long it will be before the work of this Department is cleared up?
§ Sir P. LLOYD-GREAMEThe number of persons employed by the Clearing Office (Enemy Debts)—which includes the Clearing Office (Germany), and the Departments for the Administration of Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian property; and the representatives of those Departments in Berlin, Vienna and Budapest, and their staffs—is 1,006. The annual cost of their salaries and wages is approximately £231,000. It is impossible to state the approximate life of these different Departments, as it will be largely dependent upon external circumstances beyond their control, but the staffs are subject to continual reduction as circumstances permit.