§ Mr. R. DAVIESasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total number of persons ordinarily employed in the Government Civil Service, divided into categories as far as possible, at a given date in 1890, 1900, 1910 and 1925, respectively?
§ Mr. McNEILLI regret that these particulars are not available. The hon. Member will find a comparison of 1717W the numbers of Civil Servants in 1914 and 1923, divided into categories, in the Report of the Committee on Pay, etc. of State Servants, 1923, and will find details of the total number of Civil Servants in 1914 and at different dates since the War up to 1925 in the Memorandum on Present and Pre-War Expenditure, etc. (Command Paper 2428 of 1925). For such particulars as exist for the other years mentioned in the question, I am afraid that I must refer the hon. Member to the Annual Estimates. He will, however, find a statement of the number of persons in the Established Civil Service on the 31st March, 1902, and the 31st March, 1911, in Parliamentary Papers, No. 409 of Session 1902 and No. 210 of Session 1911.