HC Deb 13 March 1951 vol 485 c153W
147. Mr. Gibson

asked the Minister of Health what qualifications are laid down for people to be employed as enumerators in the forthcoming census; whether this work is to be confined to civil servants only or whether suitable unemployed disabled ex-Service men will be eligible for this employment.

Mr. Blenkinsop

Registrars have been instructed to select persons of reasonable intelligence, education, tact and courtesy and with sufficient physical and general competence to undertake the work which is onerous. There are no rigid age limits and appointment is not confined to any particular class of persons. General recruitment has now ceased.