Mr. A. T. DAVIESasked the President of the Board of Education what increases in the staff and remuneration of such staff in his Department has occurred between the years 1919 and the current financial year?
§ Mr. FISHERThe total staff, indoor and outdoor, serving in the Board of Education, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum, and the Royal College of Art, was, on 1st November, 1919, 2,328, and the total monthly remuneration of the staff at that date was £56,271. On 1st November, 1920, the figures were 2,432 and £75,938, respectively. The increase in the staff between the two dates is due to the return of officers either from the Forces or from other Departments to which they had been lent during the War, and to the creation of new posts to deal with the increase of work arising out of the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918, the Government Scheme for the Higher Education of ex-Service Students, and, to a certain extent, the Education Act, 1918. The increase in the remuneration of the staff is due to a small extent to an increase in its numbers, but mainly to an improvement in the scales of pay of certain grades, and to an increase in the war bonus paid generally throughout the Civil Service.