§ 54. Sir GEORGE PENNYasked the Minister of Health the number of officials in receipt of salaries or wages from local authorities in proportion to the population of this country; what the proportion is in comparison with the electorate; and whether recent legislation will increase the number during the coming financial year?
§ Mr. GREENWOODThe hon. Member will find certain figures bearing on this subject in the Industry Tables of the 1921 Census, but I have no figures of recent date nor can I express any opinion on the last part of the question.
§ Sir G. PENNYIs the right hon. Gentleman desirous of emulating Russia as regards the number of officials?
§ 79. Sir G. PENNYasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of salaried Civil Service officials employed in this country; and what proportion the number bears to the total population?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence)The returns of Civil Service staffs do not distinguish salaried officers from other civil servants, but the following figures may give the hon. Member the information which he desires. The total number of civilian employés of Government, established and unestablished, whole time and part time (including 121,813 industrial and 179,311 manipulative staff in the arsenals, dockyards, postal service and elsewhere), was 434,368 on the 1st January last. Of this number, after excluding industrial, manipulative, messengerial and other staffs on weekly wages, and part time staffs, it is estimated that there were about 74,000 salaried civil servants, representing 0.17 per cent. Of 44,504,000, the estimated population of Great Britain in 1929, or one to six hundred.