§ Mr. MANDERasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the latest figure of the number of officials who have been transferred from other Departments to the Department of Customs and Excise and elsewhere as a result of the passage of the Import Duties Act, and the number newly engaged?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThe number of officials transferred from other Departments to the Customs and Excise Department since 1st October, 1931, is 864, and the number newly engaged during1190W the same period is 653. I would point out, however, that these numbers represent recruitment for the work of the Department as a whole and include making good normal wastage. The number transferred to the staff of the Import Duties Advisory. Committee is 76, and the number newly engaged for that staff is one.