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Controls (Staff)

Volume 467: debated on Thursday 28 July 1949

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38.

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, 1949Industries most directly concerned with Control‡
Number†Annual SalariesNameEstimated number employed
£'000
Dyestuffs Control13½6·1Part of Chemicals Industry46,600
Fertilisers Directorate5321·7
Nitrogen Supplies Directorate3·5
Sulphuric Acid Control10½7·2
Directorate of Paint Materials125·6Paint and Varnish Industry37,200
Leather Control145½62·1Leather (Tanning and Dressing) and Fellmongery trades41,900
Directorate of Flax Disposals3914·4Linen and Soft Hemp Trades (Great Britain and Northern Ireland); Rope, Twine and Net Trade80,000
Directorate of Home Flax Production9643·2
Hemp Control2311·5
Hosiery Control26½9·2Hosiery and other knitted goods trades115,500
Jute Control74½32·7Jute Industry17,800
Narrow Fabrics Control17½7·0Narrow Fabrics Trade22,100
Silk and Rayon Control4·0Rayon, Nylon, etc., Weaving and Silk trades42,400
Wool Control80½45·7Woollen and Worsted Industry212,000
Match Control1·8Match Industry3,200
Paper Control20681·3Paper and Board Manufacture75,700
Timber Control1,224593·0Timber Trade86,700
Mica Directorate5·4§§
Molasses and Industrial Alcohol Directorate26½8·2Part of Food Industry1,000
Rubber Directorate60½29·8Rubber Industry96,100
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.