§ Mr. R. Morganasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, taking the Ministry of Supply, the Admiralty and 276W the War Office, he will state the number of higher clerical officers, clerical officers, chief superintendents and superintendents of typists, shorthand-typists, typists, established and temporary, and clerks in each grade, men and women respectively, employed in headquarters establishments, respectively, at these Ministries; and the number of departmental clerks in each grade, shorthand-typists and typists established and temporary., respectively, clerical assistants and clerks in each grade, men and women, respectively, employed in any out-stations of these Ministries as at the most recent convenient date?
§ Captain CrookshankConsiderable inquiry would be necessary to obtain the desired information, and I do not feel justified in undertaking this in present circumstances.