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Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of civil servants employed by Central government in the years 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1945, 1950 and 1953.
Mr. Brooke
Civil Service manpower figures for the earlier years exist only to a limited extent and are not strictly comparable with current statistics. Subject to this, the best figures I can give are:
| 1900 | … | … | 145,000 |
| 1910 | … | … | 210,000 |
| 1st April, 1920 | … | … | 380,963 |
| 1st April, 1930 | … | … | 283,957 |
| 1st April, 1940 | … | … | 454,745 |
| 1st April, 1945 | … | … | 704,646 |
| 1st April, 1950 | … | … | 684,799 |
| 1st April, 1953 | … | … | 666,092 |