Accounting Clerks and Equipment Assistants

HC Deb 05 December 1945 vol 416 cc2474-5W

Mr. W. Roberts

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air how many clerks, accounts, and equipment assistants have completed a course of training since VJ-Day; and what was the rate of training during the war.

Mr. Strachey

Up to a fortnight ago some 1,700 accounting clerks and 2,600 equipment assistants had completed a course of training since VJ-Day. The highest weekly rate of training during the war, in 194I, was 250 accounting clerks and 300 equipment assistants.