§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Financial Secretary to the. Treasury how many temporary civil servants have been discharged since the Prime Minister's letter to employers in August last?
Mr. SAMUELThis information is not available, and could not be obtained without considerable labour. I may, however, add that between 1st July and 1st October, 1928, there was a reduction of 363 in the number of unestablished civil servants, but that this reduction was more than accounted for by transfers of unestablished staff to the permanent establishment in the same period.