§ Sir H. Williamsasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the aggregate number of persons employed in all Government Departments other than the Post Office, and other than the productive employés in Government factories, on the latest date for which the figures are available, and on the last pre-war date for which they are available?
§ Captain CrookshankThe last dates for which precise figures are available are 1st January, 1941, and 1st April, 1939. The total number of non-industrial civil servants, excluding the Post Office, employed at those dates were respectively 334,809 (328,374 whole-time and 6,435 part-time) and 192,977 (189,363 whole-time and 3,614 part-time). As regards industrial employés I regret that the figures do not distinguish between those engaged on productive work in factories and others.