Mr. Edward M. Taylorasked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will express as a weekly average increase the increase which has taken place in the numbers of non-industrial civil servants between October, 1964, and the most recent date for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Shore229. This figure excludes former Post Office staff transferred to the Department for National Savings and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on the setting up of these Departments on 1st October, 1969.