§ Mr. WILMOTasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of serving Civil Servants, other than S class, transferred to the Department of the Unemployment Assistance Board; the distribution of these vacancies or appointments as between the various
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UNBMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE BOARD. Number of Transfers and Promotions. Department from which transferred. Total number transferred. Number promoted on transfer. Admiralty … … 15 6 Agriculture and Fisheries … … 9 2 Agriculture, Department of (Scotland) … … 2 2 Air Ministry … … 10 4 Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum … … 1 — Cabinet, Offices of the … … 2 2 Charity Commission … … 1 — Customs and Excise … … 58 42 Dominions Office … … 7 2 Education, Board of … … 12 — Education, Scottish … … 1 — Exchequer and Audit … … 3 3 Foreign Office … … 3 3 Friendly Societies Registry … … 3 1 Health, Ministry of … … 31 15 Board of Control … … 1 — General Register Office … … 2 — Health, Department of (Scotland) … … 9 9 Health, Welsh Board of … … 10 9 Home Office … … 7 5 Imperial Economic Committee … … 1 — India Office … … 1 — Inland Revenue … … 40 21 Labour, Ministry of … … 501 355 Land Registry … … 2 — Land Purchase Commission, Northern Ireland … … 1 1 Lord Chancellor's Department … … 22 18 National Insurance Audit Department … … 3 2 National Savings Committee … … 7 4 Pensions, Ministry of … … 53 29 Post Office … … 154 75 Public Trustee Office … … 2 — Scottish Office … … 1 — Stationery Office … … 19 5 Trade, Board of … … 27 11 Mines Department … … 2 1 Transport, Ministry of … … 8 4 Treasury … … 19 9 Treasury Solicitor … … 3 — War Office … … 28 9 Works, Office of … … 9 1 Total … … 1,090 650 other Government Departments; and the number of transfers with promotion?
Mr. STANLEYThe following statement shows the number of serving Civil Servants (other than S class clerks) transferred to the Unemployment Assistance Board, the various Government Departments from which they were transferred, and the number of cases in which transfer was accompanied by promotion:
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§ Mr. WHITEasked the Minister of Labour the number of officers of the Unemployment Assistance Board and the staff employed in each divisional area, and the approximate number of applicants for allowances in each of their areas?
Mr. STANLEYThe staff of the Unemployment Assistance Board, headquarters and outstations, in post on the 18th March, 1935, numbered 6,264 (excluding cleaners). Details of their allocation, together with the approximate number of applicants for allowances at the same date, are as follow:
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— Staff. Approximate number of applicants. Headquarters 236 — Regions:— London and South of England. 1,224 125,000 North East 1,416 210,000 North West 1,204 160,000 Wales and Midlands 1,155 160,000 Scotland 1,029 135,000 Totals 6,264 790,000