AGRICULTURAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES (STAFF).

HC Deb 20 November 1919 vol 121 c1187W

Mr. A. HENDERSON

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture whether he can now state the total cost and the total number of persons employed by the county agricultural committees?

Sir A. BOSCAWEN

The numbers and cost of the staff employed by agricultural executive committees in England and Wales, as reported by those committees on the 1st November, 1919, were as follow:

Number of staff	905
Total salaries and wages of staff	£115,646
Estimated annual expenditure on travelling and subsistence allowances to staff	18,560
Total annual expenditure	£134,206

This represents a reduction of some 70 per cent, below war standard both in respect of numbers and cost of the staff employed.