§ 69. Sir Frank Sandersonasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total number of headquarters staffs of each Department in which a proportion are still serving in reception areas under the general scheme of evacuation enforced at the outbreak of war and since; and in each such Department the present number of 1240 headquarters staffs now serving in reception areas and the proportion of such headquarters staffs serving in reception areas who were originally evacuated from the London area.
§ The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Peake)Approximately 122,000 non-industrial civil servants are serving in headquarter offices in the London area, and approximately 54,000 in the various temporary war-time stations. The latter figures excludes regional organisations and certain other staffs in the provinces, for example some of the Raw Materials Controls of the Ministry of Supply. The up-to-date figures for the various Departments could not be precisely ascertained without a good deal of research. Owing to the changes in the war-time composition of these staffs, it is not possible to state the proportion who were originally evacuated from London, but there is reason to believe that at least 50 per cent.—in some areas a substantially higher proportion—of the staff working in the various evacuation centres have been recruited locally.