§ Sir W. SUGDENasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the respective number of established and unestablished messengers and paperkeepers employed in the headquarter and ex-headquarter departments of the Civil Service on 1st September, 1933?
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAThe following statement gives such information as I have.
The numbers of adult messengers and paperkeepers serving on 1st April, 1933, which is the latest date for which information is available, were as follow; 529W
Established. Unestablished. Messengers 414 2,678 P a perkeepers and Record Keepers 156 476 I regret that the information available does not enable me to give the distribution of these figures between headquarters and ex-headquarters departments, respectively.