§ Miss BONDFIELDasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of temporary staff employed in the offices of district inspectors of taxes, the Scottish collectors of taxes, and headquarters offices of the Inland Revenue Department, in each of the following grades: Grade 1 shorthand-typists, Grade 2 shorthand-typists, Grade 1 copying-typists, and Grade 2 copying-typists; and the average length of service of the shorthand-typists and copying-typists concerned?
§ Mr. McNEILLThe numbers are as follow:
he can furnish the following figures in respect of the Ministry of Labour, the Board of Trade, the Ministry of Pensions, the Board of Inland Revenue, and the General Post Office; the total male clerical class establishment, the total female clerical class establishment, and the total writing assistant establishment, authorised under Departmental reorganisation Reports; the total number of male and female clerical officers actually employed; the total number of writing assistants actually employed; the 1757W total number of P-class clerks employed; and the total number of male and female temporary clerks employed?
§ Mr. E. BROWNasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will furnish the following figures in respect of the Ministry of Labour, Board of Trade, Ministry of Pensions, Board of Inland Revenue, and General Post Office: the total male clerical class establishment, the total female clerical class establishment, and the total writing assistant establishment, authorised under departmental re-organisation reports; the total number of male and female
Department. Established Clerical Classes. Writing Assistants (Established). Numbers of unestablished Graded Clerks employed. Authorised complement. Number actually employed. Authorised complement. Number actually employed, P Class Clerks. Temporary Male Clerks. Temporary Women Clerks. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 General Post Office 9,369 8,949* 2,910 2,478 144 129 84 Inland Revenue 7,665 7,121 † 378 1,511 1,351 102 Ministry of Pensions 1,308 1,169 640 431 1,709 631 482 Ministry of Labour 7,355‡ 6,849 614 389 1,950 1,642 704 Board of Trade 980§ 920 ║ 133 75 421 350 9 Notes.—(*) This figure includes 70 officers, assimilated to the Executive scale, who are redundant and blocking clerical posts.
(†) No figure can be given for the authorised establishment of Writing Assistants in the Inland Revenue Department as a whole, as the complement of Writing Assistants in the Branch of the Chief Inspector of Taxes has not yet been determined. In other branches 163 posts of Writing Assistants are authorised.
(‡)This number includes 216 temporary or supernumerary posts authorised in view of the existing volume of work. Posts of Employment Officer and Third Class Officer are included in this figure, and in the corresponding figure in column 3.
(§) This figure includes 16 posts authorised on a temporary basis only.
(║) This figure includes 75 officers, assimilated to the Executive scale (£1–400) who are redundant, and are blocking posts for clerical officers.