§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Minister of Supply if he will give in tabular form and in convenient salary and wage categories the number of staff, industrial and otherwise, in his employ at the latest available date.
§ Mr. G. R. StraussThe numbers of civilian employees in my Department on 1st October, 1948, were as follow:
— Non-Industrial Industrial 1. Headquarters 11,700 149 2. Outstations— (a) Research Establishments 9,702 12,324 (b) Royal Ordnance Factories 5,914 34,586 (c) Inspection Directorates 3,821 5,579 (d) Storage and Disposal Depots and Canteens 1,500 9,642 (e) Miscellaneous 1,593 1,156 Total 34,230 63,436 The analysis has been made on the basis of the subheads shown in Civil Estimates, 1948–49, Class X, Vote 1. The salary and wage categories of the non-industrial staff are set out in those Estimates. Similar details at 1st October, 1948, cannot be obtained without the expenditure of an undue amount of labour.