HC Deb 20 December 1955 vol 547 c285W
69. Mr. Renton

asked the President of the Board of Trade why the number of non-industrial civil servants in his Department rose from 7,179 on 1st July to 7,366 on 1st October, 1955.

Mr. Walker-Smith

Responsibility for the engineering and iron and steel industries was transferred to the Board of Trade on 18th July, with 247 staff who had been engaged on this work in the Ministry of Supply. As the figures show, this increase has been offset by a reduction elsewhere in the Board of Trade of sixty.