HC Deb 13 November 1952 vol 507 cc72-3W
68. Sir J. Crowder

asked the Secretary to the Treasury why the staff under heading L of Her Majesty's Stationery Office increased from 2,565 in 1951–52 to 2,656 in 1952–53.

Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

Although the Estimate provides for 2,656 staff, the number in fact employed in the Stationery Office Printing Works is now 2,639. The extra staff has been recruited in the main for dealing with arrears of scientific library binding in accordance with a recommendation of a sub-committee of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy; to operate a new incentive scheme; and to meet increased demands for the production of postal orders and pension order books. Many order books had to be overprinted as a result of the recent increase in National Insurance benefits.