§ Mr. Willeyasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, if he will state the numbers in each of the grades of the three scientific classes employed in the Water Pollution Laboratory at Stevenage on 1st January, 1958, and on 1st January, 1959.
§ Mr. H. NichollsThe numbers in the grades of these three classes on these dates were:
— 1st January, 1958 1st January, 1959 Deputy Chief Scientific Officer 1 1 Senior Principal Scientific Officer 1 1 Principal Scientific Officer 9 10 Senior Scientific Officer 3 5 Scientific Officer 2 3 Senior Experimental Officer 4 5 Experimental Officer 19 17 Assistant Experimental Officer 17 21 Assistant (Scientific) 16 16