§ Mr. Wrigglesworthasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give details of the numbers and salaries of the extra public relations and information officers recruited by his Department and agencies for which it is responsible between 1970–71 and 1974–75.
§ Mr. BoothComprehensive figures of the numbers of all information officers recruited between 1970–71 and 1974–75 are not available but the average num-110W bers employed in the information officer group in my Department in 1970–71 and in my Department and its executive agencies in 1974–75 are as follows:
1970–71 24 1974–75 43 Increase 19 The annual salaries of the additional 19 officers in 1974–75 is estimated to have been £78,000.