§ Miss LAWRENCEasked the Minister of Labour the number of trade board investigators and inspectors either at present appointed or authorised; and whether he will give the corresponding number of staff on 1st January, 1920?
§ Mr. SHAWThe figures as to the Inspectorate and Investigating staff in respect of the Trade Boards Acts now sanctioned were given in reply to a question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich (Miss Jewson) on the 4th August. On 1st January, 1920, the number of inspectors sanctioned was 15. In addition, an arrangement, since abandoned, was then in force whereby a varying number of the Unemployment Insurance inspectors gave part of their time to Trade Board work. At that date the number of investigators sanctioned was 60, but I should add that 36 of these posts were under a temporary sanction for two years which expired 1st April, 1921. I am sending my hon. Friend a copy of the answer given on 4th August to which I have referred.