§ 60. Viscount Hinchingbrookeasked the Minister of Labour how many of the 1,019,000 persons employed in local government service in September, 1946, are employed in regions, county councils, county borough councils, municipal borough councils, urban and rural district councils, respectively.
§ Mr. IsaacsI am having the figures extracted and will forward them to the hon. Member.
§ Viscount HinchingbrookeAs the number of civil servants employed by the Central Government is 1,007,000, does not the right hon. Gentleman think that he is losing the race with the local authorities and had he not better add a quarter of a million civil servants?
§ Mr. IsaacsPerhaps with that information in mind I might be able to present the figures in a different way.