§ Sir R. Glynasked the Secretary to the Treasury the number of persons employed by the following Ministries, indicating established and unestablished and the total figure of the salaries involved in each case: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of Fuel and Power, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labour.
Staff in post on 1st October, 1945. Department. Established. Unestablished whole-time. Unestablished part-time. Total. Approximate Annual Cost of Salaries. £ Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries(a) 1,470 2,218 256 3,944 1,291,000 Ministry of Fuel and Power 636 6,093 233 6,962 2,175,000 Ministry of Health(b) 2,006 1,592 49 3,647 1,656,000 Ministry of Labour and National Service 15,233 19,544 2,375 37,152 11,884,000 Ministry of Works 2,415 13,220 310 15,945 5,650,000 Dept. of Agriculture for Scotland 395 804 104 1,303 462,200 (a) Excluding staffs in the direct employment of Agricultural Executive Committees. (b) Excluding 800 whole-time and 440 part-time temporary medical officers in the Emergency Medical Service, the total cost of whose salaries is approximately £707,000.