§ Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what have been the total reductions in the permanent staff and the temporary staff, respectively, of the Civil Service since 5th April, 1928?
Mr. SAMUELI assume that my hon. Friend has in mind the civil staff reduction programme over the years 1927–32 set out in House of Commons Paper No. 63 of 1928. Excluding the Ministry of Labour the net reduction
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Promotion of (I) Clerical Officers (£60–250 per annum (Basic)) and (II) Higher Clerical Officers (£300–400 per annum (Basic)) to Posts on the Scale £400–500 (Basic) per annum in the period 1920–1928.* TABLE (I) (Clerical Officers). Department. Men or Women Promotions to Posts on the Scale £400–500 per annum (basic). Year ended 1st April. 1921. 1922. 1923. 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928. Admiralty … … Men — 1 — — — 3 — — Trade, Board of … … Women — — 1 — — — — — Totals of Table (I) … … — 1 1 — — 3 — — * Including officers on the corresponding women's or provincial scales and, in some cases, the promotion of officers of analogous grades on the scale £300–400 per annum. effected under the programme since 1st April, 1928, is 970. The Ministry of Labour is excluded because the increase in the live register of unemployed persons and the adoption of industrial transference measures in the period covered by the question have involved the recruitment by that Department in particular of additional staff for emergency work, whereas the paper above referred to stated that the whole programme of reduction would only prove possible in so far as the departmental estimates were not varied by new legislation or important decisions of policy entailing considerable increases of staff, and provided that the Ministry of Labour in particular was entitled to assume, for the purpose of fixing numbers of the Unemployment Department, that during the next five years trade would become good.