HC Deb 13 March 1923 vol 161 cc1303-4W
Viscount EDNAM

asked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he will state what is the present establishment of the Finance Department of the War Office; what was the establishment in 1914, 1920, 1921, and 1922; and what proportion have deductions in the establishment of this Department in the last three years borne to deductions in the establishments of the other Departments of the War Office?

Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS

The numbers of officials (military and civilian) in the Finance Department (excluding local audit. offices) are as follow:

1914 249
1st February, 1920 1740
1st February, 1921 909
1st February, 1922 693
1st February, 1923 481

The percentage reductions were

During
1920–21 49 percent.
1921–22 23 percent.
1922–23 31 percent.

while the percentage reductions in the remainder of the office (both military and civil) were

During
1920–21 22 per cent.
1921–22 29 percent.
1922–23 22 percent.