§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the National Savings Department, Salisbury Square, is under his control; what staff is employed there; what salaries are now being paid to the three highest-paid officials and what were their pre-War salaries and occupations; whether the salaries list has been raised since the Armistice; and, if so, how much?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe total staff employed with Treasury approval by the National Savings Committee numbers 294, as against 391 at the date of the Armistice. The three highest paid officials are on scales £850£l,000, £750-£900, and £700£900 respectively, plus War bonus. Before the War these gentlemen were respectively a Board of Education Inspector (£270£400), an Examiner in the Post Office (£360£430), and a Lecturer in Economics. A direct, comparison of the salary list at the time of the Armistice and at the present date would be misleading owing to the fact that at the date of the Armistice a considerable portion of the staff consisted of officers lent by other Departments. I may perhaps add that the staff of the Savings Committee was recently investigated by a Committee of which my hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset was Chairman, and that Committee has reported that the affairs of the Savings Committee are being administered with due regard to efficiency and economy.