§ Colonel GRETTONasked the First Commissioner of Works if he is now able to give comparative figures, by categories, of the numbers and cost of the staff (both non-industrial and industrial) employed in the Office of Works in 1912 and in 1932?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREThe only document purporting to give a complete list of the staff employed in the Office of Works in the years immediately preceding the War, is a statement prepared in 1912 for the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, though even in this statement there are some omissions. It is evident, however, that the numbers, by categories of the non-industrial and industrial staff (according to the classification now adopted), and the total cost of the non-industrial staff, in 1912, did not fall short of the figures given below, and that they thus compare approximately as shown with the actual numbers and cost on 1st April, 1932:—