§ Mr. RAPERasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many first and second class women clerks and writing assistants were employed in the Civil Service in 1914 and how many are employed now?
Mr. YOUNGThe number of first and second class women clerks employed in 1914 was 3,110, exclusive of 535 women clerks in the Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance Department, and of a number of unestablished clerks on duties proper to women clerks or writing assistants. The number of writing assistants or analogous grades (card tellers and female clerical assistants) was about 1,800. The number of writing assistants at present employed is between 3,500 and 4,000. The grades of first and second class women clerks are now obsolete.