HC Deb 02 August 1957 vol 574 c283W
Mr. Tilney

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the number of overseas civil servants employed in each of the African Colonial Territories and on secondment to the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland on 31st January in each of the years 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957, respectively.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

I regret that the information required is not available and could not be obtained without much research and inquiry from the Governments concerned.

The numbers of overseas civil servants serving at the beginning of 1956 in the undermentioned territories were as follows:

Gambia 106
Gold Coast 1,485
Kenya 3,347
Nigeria:
Federal 1,819
Northern Region 1,243
Eastern Region 357
Western Region 468
Northern Rhodesia 1,111
Nyasaland 716
Sierra Leone 383
Somaliland 161
Tanganyika 2,279
Uganda 1,555
Zanzibar 136
On secondment to the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 340

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