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Sir R. Tasker
asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the number of persons employed in the civil and municipal services for the year 1939?
Sir K. Wood
The total number of non-industrial staff employed in Government Departments as at 1st April, 1939, was 424,896 (374,301 whole-time and 50,595 part-time). At the outbreak of war the estimated total number of such non-industrial civil servants was 443,000 (395,000 whole-time and 48,000 part-time). I am advised that figures relating to the total number of persons employed in the municipal services are not available.