§ Major Procterasked the Minister of Fuel and Power the number of persons employed on the staff of the Mines Department of the Board of Trade in the year ended 31st March, 1939, with the salaries paid to each and the total cost of administration of the Department.
Major Lloyd GeorgeThe total number of staff employed in the Mines Department at 31st March, 1939, was 518, and the total cost of administration was £217,146 9s. 3d. It would involve a considerable expenditure of man-power to extract details of the salaries paid to each of these 518 persons, but details of salaries paid to each grade of these officials and the numbers in each grade are obtainable from the 1938 Civil Estimates, Class VI, Vote 5, pages 62–70.