§ Mr. KELLYasked the Minister of Labour the number of employment clerks, P class clerks and temporary and casual staff clerks who were employed in Employment Exchanges on 1st January, 1927?
§ Sir A. STEEL-MAITLANDThe respective numbers are 2,747 clerks, 1,252 "P" class, 1,173 temporary and 2,830 casual, a total of 8,002. The total number of persons employed depends, of course, very largely upon the state of the live register of unemployed persons at the Exchanges, and I may add that the staff is less at the present time by some 1,200 persons than on the 1st January.