§ 1. Mr. Orbachasked the Postmaster-General the total number of skilled employees who have left the Post Office Engineering Department during the past 12 months; and the number of such employees who have left his Department in the London area during the same period.
§ Mr. HobsonWastage through voluntary resignation among skilled employees of the Post Office engineering department throughout the whole country during the year 1948, was 1,668, representing 3.6 per cent. of the total number of such employees. In the London area only the figure was 628, or 4 per cent.