§ Sir Richard Glynasked the Postmaster-General what was the total number of civil servants employed by his Department full time and part time, respectively, at the last convenient date; and what increases or decreases these figures represent on the comparable figures for October, 1964, and August, 1965.
§ Mr. Edward Short383,200 full time and 30,944 part time on 1st July, 1966. These figures represented increases of 15,706 and 2,563 respectively, since 1st October, 1964, and 9,519 and 1,438 since 1st August, 1965. They exclude about 23,000 sub-postmasters, who are employed on an agency basis.