§ Mr. SHEPHERDasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the approximate numbers of male junior clerical officers, female junior clerical officers, and higher grade clerical officers employed in the general clerical class on 1st April or other convenient date in each of the years 1920 to 1929, inclusive, and the numbers of men and women, respectively, promoted from the junior grade of the general clerical class to the higher grade in each of those years?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEAccording to Returns furnished to the Treasury in the year 1928 the numbers of male
— 1920–1921. 1921–1922. 1922–1923. 1923–1924. 1924–1925. 1925–1926. 1926–1927. 1927–1928. Men … … 15 110 140 57 80 87 131 124 Women … … 21 32 72 53 27 23 37 35 The figures in respect of the year 1928–29 are not available.