§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Prime Minister whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a detailed list giving full particulars of new situations and appointments made in his office since October, 1964, the persons appointed and the salaries paid and similar details for personal secretaries and Parliamentary Press liaison officers paid for either wholly or in part out of public funds; and how the total numbers so employed compare with October, 1963.
§ The Prime MinisterExcluding messengerial and cleaning staff and staff of common service Departments such as184W the Post Office and the Ministry of Public Building and Works, the number of publicly paid staff in my Office on 31st October, 1967 was 57 compared with 44 on 31st October, 1963. The salaries paid are those appropriate to the Civil Service grades concerned. As to personalities, some details of senior staff are given in successive editions of the Imperial Calendar. It is not the practice to give, nor I think, would my hon. Friend wish to have, personal details of junior staff, nor of those whose salaries do not fall on public funds.