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Sir H. Williams
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of persons in all Government Departments, respectively, as public relations officers and Press officers; the total number of persons in their respective Departments; and the total annual cost?
Captain Crookshank,
pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th May, 1942; col. 1893, Vol. 379], supplied the following statement:The following table gives for all Departments, other than the Ministry of Information, the particulars to which I referred in my reply to my hon. Friend on the 14th May. It is not possible to give separately the numbers of public relations officers and Press officers or of their respective staffs, since the duties of
| Department. | Staff engaged on Public Relations and Press Work. | Annual Cost. | ||
| £ | ||||
| Treasury | … | … | 1 | 1,700 |
| Home Office and Ministry of Home Security. | … | … | 23 | 11,262 |
| Foreign Office | … | … | 11 | 7,053 |
| India and Burma Office | … | … | 18 | 6,942 |
| Dominions Office | … | … | 10 | 3,800 |
| Colonial Office | … | … | 7 | 4,020 |
| Board of Education | … | … | 3 | 2,127 |
| Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries | … | … | 56 | 15,813 |
| Ministry of Economic Warfare | … | … | 7 | 2,646 |
| Ministry of Health | … | … | 17 | 5,250 |
| Ministry of Labour and National Service | … | … | 40 | 16,770 |
| Board of Trade | … | … | 12 | 5,321 |
| Mines and Petroleum Department. | … | … | 2 | 950 |
| Ministry of Food | … | … | 65 | 23,083 |
| Ministry of Supply | … | … | 30 | 15,231 |
| General Post Office | … | … | 13 | 8,190 |
| Scottish Home Department | … | … | 6 | 2,778 |
| Ministry of War Transport | … | … | 13 | 5,676 |
| Ministry of Works and Buildings | … | … | 14 | 5,245 |
| National Savings Committee | … | … | 89 | 34,291 |
| War Damage Commission | … | … | 2 | 1,000 |
| Ministry of Pensions | … | … | 2 | 1,038 |
| Ministry of Aircraft Production | … | … | 17 | 6,021 |
| Inland Revenue | … | … | 1(a) | 1,100 |
| Admiralty | … | … | 72(b) | 39,960 |
| Air Ministry | … | … | 199 | 97,574 |
| War Office | … | … | 356 | 112,370 |
| … | … | 1,086 | 437,211 | |
| (a) A member of the Tax Inspectorate undertaking the duties of a Public Relations Officer | ||||
| (b) Including a small number of staff engaged on censorship work whose activities cannot be clearly marked off from those of the rest of the staff. | ||||