§ Sir T. ROBINSONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of persons employed in each Government Department, and the amount paid in wages and salaries, in 1914; the number of persons employed in each Department at the present time; and the amount paid in basis wages and salaries and war bonuses, respectively?
Mr. YOUNGComplete details for March, 1922, on the basis suggested in my hon. Friend's question are not available and could not be obtained without a great deal of labour. Full particulars were, however, obtained for the Committee on Reduction of National Expenditure of the staff of each Government Department in 1914 and in September, 1921, the figure of cost for the later year being assessed on the basis of bonus related to an average cost of living figure of 100 (as estimated for the whole of the financial year 1921–23). The cost of living figure to which bonus is related at the present time is 105.
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Department. 1914. September, 1921. Numbers. Salaries and wages. Numbers. Basic salaries and wages. Bonus. £ £ £ Admiralty 5,409 847,351 11,099 2,086,038 890,833 Agriculture and Fisheries (including Ordnance Survey). 2,430 308,470 2,809 533,981 240,410 Air Ministry — — 4,478 986,245 220,875 British Museum 580 96,376 592 114,307 70,400 Colonial Office 206 51,016 413 105,771 34,888 Customs and Excise Board 10,904 1,815,745 11,848 2,517,378 1,408,299 Exchequer and Audit Department. 273 70,114 350 100,352 46,302 Education Board 1,949 429,819 2,132 566,202 261,808 Foreign Office 188 55,504 850 194,335 51,505 Health, Ministry of (including Welsh Board of Health) 3,108 490,528 5,461 1,237,330 373,640 Home Office 649 144,638 898 226,838 103,878 Inland Revenue Department 9,041 1,301,211 16,178 3,230,008 1,052,978 Labour Ministry 4,755 481,429 23,382 4,146,659 746,630 Land Registry 238 36,059 348 61,167 31,557 National Insurance—Audit Department 755 96,718 472 101,335 62,716 Overseas Trade Department — — 602 130,724 35,556 Pensions Ministry — — 25,755 4,646,124 122,193 Post Office 201,889 14,296,834 201,789 19,351,754 14,294,831 Prison Commission 3,667 362,424 3,097 353,345 300,183 Public Trustee 409 46,569 1,339 227,034 86,333 Registrar-General 228 29,478 561 81,486 24,384 Scientific and Industrial Research Department. — — 490 127,955 58,936 Stationery Office 232 33,362 1,108 189,950 48,124 Supreme Court of Judicature 925 263,704 1,058 305,359 113,301 Trade Board (including Bankruptcy, Food and Shipping Departments). 2,374 480,402 6,399 1,522,123 323,740 Mines Department 103 35,010 385 104,373 33,161 Transport Ministry 47 13,599 686 190,976 63,358 Treasury 127 36,778 378 125.320 37,675 War Office (ex Pay and Record Offices). 1,621 290,856 3,887 614,412 290,521 Works, Office of 1,477 189,464 3,392 653,439 144,318 Scotland. Agriculture, Board of 205 30,510 447 91,708 37,572 Health, Board of 474 65,115 607 120,322 51,838 Prison Commission 594 54,705 547 64,169 48,962 Scottish Education Department 333 67,504 306 83,546 38,889 Other Departments in Great Britain. 2,234 478,431 7,136 1,681,162 344,691 The numbers and basic wages columns for September, 1921, include about 96,500 temporary staff on consolidated rates of pay. Considerable reductions have been made since that date both in numbers and in wages of temporary staff, so that the numbers and cost at the present time would be appreciably lower than is indicated by the foregoing table.