§ Mr. HALL-CAINEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of non-civil servants who have been brought into the service since 1st November last; and the aggregate annual cost of their salaries?
§ Major ELLIOTFigures in the precise form desired by my hon. Friend are not readily available, and could not be obtained without disproportionate expenditure of time and labour. The six-monthly return of staffs which is about to be published will, however, show that between 1st October, 1931, and 1st April, 1932, there was a net decrease of the total numbers of civil staffs amounting to 2,635.