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38.
Mr. Osborne
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the total numbers of non-industrial staff employed, and the salaries paid, in each of his Department's controls, together with estimates of the numbers of person employed in the industries with which each control is most directly concerned.
Title of Control or Directorate* | Non-industrial staff in Control or Directorate at 1st July, 1949 | Industries most directly concerned with Control‡ | ||
Number† | Annual Salaries | Name | Estimated number employed | |
£'000 | ||||
Dyestuffs Control | 13½ | 6·1 | Part of Chemicals Industry | 46,600 |
Fertilisers Directorate | 53 | 21·7 | ||
Nitrogen Supplies Directorate | 8½ | 3·5 | ||
Sulphuric Acid Control | 10½ | 7·2 | ||
Directorate of Paint Materials | 12 | 5·6 | Paint and Varnish Industry | 37,200 |
Leather Control | 145½ | 62·1 | Leather (Tanning and Dressing) and Fellmongery trades | 41,900 |
Directorate of Flax Disposals | 39 | 14·4 | Linen and Soft Hemp Trades (Great Britain and Northern Ireland); Rope, Twine and Net Trade | 80,000 |
Directorate of Home Flax Production | 96 | 43·2 | ||
Hemp Control | 23 | 11·5 | ||
Hosiery Control | 26½ | 9·2 | Hosiery and other knitted goods trades | 115,500 |
Jute Control | 74½ | 32·7 | Jute Industry | 17,800 |
Narrow Fabrics Control | 17½ | 7·0 | Narrow Fabrics Trade | 22,100 |
Silk and Rayon Control | 7½ | 4·0 | Rayon, Nylon, etc., Weaving and Silk trades | 42,400 |
Wool Control | 80½ | 45·7 | Woollen and Worsted Industry | 212,000 |
Match Control | 1 | ·8 | Match Industry | 3,200 |
Paper Control | 206 | 81·3 | Paper and Board Manufacture | 75,700 |
Timber Control | 1,224 | 593·0 | Timber Trade | 86,700 |
Mica Directorate | 8½ | 5·4 | § | § |
Molasses and Industrial Alcohol Directorate | 26½ | 8·2 | Part of Food Industry | 1,000 |
Rubber Directorate | 60½ | 29·8 | Rubber Industry | 96,100 |
Notes: | ||||
* This list excludes several minor Controls exercised in the ordinary course of the Department's work and requiring no special staff. | ||||
† Excludes unpaid staff. Includes part-time workers, each of whom is counted as equivalent to one-half a full-time worker. | ||||
‡ The figures given are those for the industries most directly concerned with the Control. In most cases other industries are also affected by the Control, e.g., the activities of the Leather Control also-affect the Leather Goods and Boot and Shoe trades, while the activities of the Timber Control affect a large cross-section of the Industries of the Country. | ||||
§ No figure of employment is available. Mica is used by a wide variety of trades. |