HC Deb 19 December 1952 vol 509 c277W
Dr. Bennett

asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the figures for civil staff of the Admiralty in proportion to those of uniformed personnel borne on Vote A in 1937, 1939, 1948, 1951 and on the latest convenient date in 1952.

Mr. J. P. L. Thomas

The numbers of civil staff (Industrial and Non-Industrial both at home and abroad and including locally-entered staff abroad) employed by the Admiralty were in the following proportions to the numbers of personnel borne on Vote A in the years indicated:

per cent.
January, 1937 86
January, 1939 89
July, 1948 117
July, 1951 118
October, 1952 118