Captain O'CONNORasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many new appointments to posts carrying a salary of £2,000 a year or upwards have been made in the Treasury since November, 1918?
§ Mr. McNEILLThere are now in the Treasury four more officers than there were in November, 1918, drawing salaries of £2,000 a year and upwards. This increase was rendered necessary by a reorganisation carried out in 1919. In that year the arrangement under which there had been three Joint Permanent Secretaries of the Treasury was carefully reconsidered by the Government of the day, and it was decided to place the Treasury under the general control of a single Permanent Secretary who, in addition, would be the Permanent Head of the Civil Service. At the same time the Treasury was organised in three Departments (Supply Services, Establishments and Finance) corresponding to the natural subdivision 1619W of its duties, and in charge of each Department was placed a Controller, assisted by a Deputy-Controller, who, under the general directions of the Permanent Secretary, is specifically responsible for the work of his Department. The Controller of each Department was given the status in the Civil Service, and the remuneration of the Permanent Heads of the Chief Public Departments with whom it was necessary for the efficiency of the scheme that they should rank in authority and prestige; and the Deputy-Controllers have the rank and pay of the Deputy Heads of such Departments.