HC Deb 21 July 1913 vol 55 cc1708-9W
Mr. CHARLES DUNCAN

asked the Secretary to the Treasury the total number of witnesses who have given oral evidence before the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, specifying the number who were heads of Departments or their representatives; other officers of the higher division of the Home Civil Service; representatives of universities or officials connected therewith; representatives of general associations of Civil servants; representatives of the clerical staffs of the respective Government Departments; and persons representative of business or commercial undertakings?

Mr. MASTERMAN

The total number of witnesses who have given oral evidence before the Royal Commission on the Civil Service is 193. This number includes heads of Departments, sixty-four; officers of the higher division of the Home Civil Service, two; representatives of universities or officials connected therewith, twenty-six; representatives of general associations of Civil Servants, twenty-one {representing ten associations); representatives of the clerical staffs of the respective Government Departments, forty-one; persons representative of business or commercial undertakings, six. The total 193 includes also other educational witnesses {fourteen), technical and professional classes in the Civil Service (eleven), associations not connected with the Civil Service (six), miscellaneous (two).