HC Deb 15 December 1953 vol 522 c39W
88. Mr. Renton

asked the Secretary of State for War why the non-industrial staff of his Department increased by 235 between 1st July and 1st October. 1953.

Mr. J. R. H. Hutchison

These quarterly figures reflect part of the increase in numbers envisaged for the financial year as a whole, for which I gave the reasons in my reply to a Question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Colonel Gomme-Duncan) on 17th November this year.