Captain TERRELLasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has during the current year made any representations to any Department either as regards the numbers of the staff employed or the payment to the staff; and whether, in that case, he will state the Departments affected and the action taken as a result of the representations thus made?
Mr. YOUNGAs to the first part of the question, the answer is in the affirmative. The Treasury has constantly under review, in consultation with the Departments, the numbers and rates of pay of Government employés; as to the second part of the question, it is quite impracticable within the limits of this answer to give details of the actual communications which pass or of the action finally taken as a result thereof. As stated in reply to the hon. Member for Mosley on the 4th instant, the staffs of Government Departments have fallen from 386,000 on 1st June, 1921, to 350,000 on 1st June, 1922.