HC Deb 01 November 1948 vol 457 cc19-20W
Sir W. Smithers

asked the Minister of Food to state in convenient salary categories the number of persons employed by his Ministry in August, 1945, 1946: 1947 and at the latest available date.

Mr. Strachey

The total non-industrial staff employed in my Department on the dates referred to by the hon. Member numbered:

1st August, 1945 … 40,030
1st August, 1946 … 46,654
1st August, 1947 … 45,106
1st October, 1948 … 39,491

Records are not maintained in convenient salary categories and I cannot give the information requested without the expenditure of an undue amount of time and labour.

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