Lieut.-Colonel MOOREasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the number of ex-service civil servants now employed shows any reduction in numbers as compared with three years ago?
§ Major ELLIOTAs regards non-industrial staffs, the numbers of ex-service civil servants employed on 1st October, 1931, chow an increase of approximately 9,700 over the corresponding numbers on 1st October, 1928. No statistics are kept of the numbers of ex-service industrial civil servants.