HC Deb 11 April 1912 vol 36 cc1515-6W
Mr. O'GRADY

asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can furnish the numbers of clerks of the first division (including staff clerks promoted from the second division or other ranks), second division clerks, boy clerks, abstractors, and writers employed in the Civil Service on the 1st January of each of the following years: 1893, 1894, 1895, 1909, 1910, and 1911?

Mr. MASTERMAN

As I stated in answer to the hon. Member for the Tottenham Division on the 2nd instant, it would not be possible to give the number of first division clerks employed without making enquiry of each Department. The same is true with regard to staff clerks, who are not technically first division clerks. The approximate figures with regard to second division clerks, abstractors, boy clerks, and writers, so far as they are available, are as follows:—

SECOND DIVISION CLERKS
(Including Second-Class Clerks in India Office.
1st January, 1893 … … 2980
1st January, 1894 … … 3020
1st January, 1895 … … 2990
1st January, 1909 … … 3770
1st January, 1910 … … 3670
1st January, 1911 … … 4030
ABSTRACTORS.
1st January, 1893 … … 260
1st January, 1894 … … 350
1st January, 1895 … … 420
1st January, 1909 … … 1710
1st January, 1910 … … 1880
1st January, 1911 … … 2260
BOY CLERKS.
Boy Copyists. Boy Clerks (Old Lower Division).
1st January, 1893 825+500 to 600
1st January, 1894 810+500 to 600
1st January, 1895 850+500 to 600
1st January, 1909 2960
1st January, 1910 2930
1st January, 1911 2910
WRITERS (MEN COPYIST).
1st January, 1893 … … 500
1st January, 1894 … … 350
1st January, 1895 … … 200

No Register has been kept by the Civil Service Commissioners since 1905, when there were about 35 in employment.