HC Deb 13 November 1945 vol 415 cc2073-4W
Sir R. Glyn

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of persons who are in receipt of salaries included in Votes of Credit, 1945–46, Cmd. 6630, for the following Departments, indicating which are established and which unestablished, and what was the corresponding figure of persons employed in these Departments at the end of the financial year 1944–45: Ministry of Supply, Ministry of Aircraft Production, Ministry of Economic Warfare, Overseas Establishments, Ministry of Food, Ministry of Home Security, Ministry of Information, Postal and Telegraph Censorship, Ministry of Production, War

NON-INDUSTRIALS IN POST.
Dept. 1st April, 1945. 1st October, 1945.
Estab. Un-estab. whole-time. Un-estab. part-time. Total. Estab. Un-estab. whole-time. Un-estab. part-time. Total.
M/Supply … … 4, 902 55, 168 1, 362 61, 432 4, 703 45, 247 976 50, 926
M/Aircraft Production 3, 289 17, 719 925 21, 933 3, 264 16, 375 718 20, 357
M/Food … … 694 34,775 4,903 40, 372 654 35,358 4,637 40,649
M/Inform. … … 147 2,626 41 2,814 † 135 2, 113 34 2, 282 ‡
Post & Tel. Censorship 226 9,217 79 9,522 111 1,681 11 1,803
M/Production … 107 1,072 84 1,263 90 918 63 1,071 §
War Damage Commission … … 237 1,796 259 2, 292 237 1,741 194 2,172
M/War Transport … 3,041 11,520 655 15,216 3,015 10,103 495 13,613
M/Economic Warfare*
Home … … 12 284 7 303
Overseas … 1 5 — 6
Economic Advisory
Branch, Home … 32 707 18 757
(Foreign Office and M/Economic War-fare) Overseas … — 6 — 6
Foreign Office, Lansdowne House
Home … … — — — — 507 193 12 712
Overseas … … — — — — 16 1 — 17
* The Foreign Office and Department of Overseas Trade took over the majority of the staff at posts overseas on 1st April, 1945.
↑ Excluding 3, 561 staff overseas.
‡ Excluding 2, 800 (approximately) staff overseas.
Subsequently merged under Board of Trade.

Damage Commission, Ministry of War Transport.

Mr. Glenvil Hall

The following table shows the numbers of non-industrial staff, established and unestablished, at1st October, 1945, and 1st April, 1945, respectively, for the Departments listed in the Question, other than the Ministry of Home Security which had been. wound up at the former date. It is not possible to extract the figures for this Ministry at 1st April, 1945, separately from those for the Home Office, in view of the number of officers engaged on work common to both Ministries. The figures for 1st April, 1945, are those of staff actually in post at that date, and do not necessarily conform to those setout in Cmd. Paper 6630, which was confined to such particulars as could then be given consistently with public policy, and did not profess to be more than an indication of the distribution of Vote of Credit expenditure under the respective heads.