Orders of the Day — Growth of Bureaucracy

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 January 1968.

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Photo of Mr Eldon Griffiths Mr Eldon Griffiths , Bury St Edmunds 12:00, 29 January 1968

Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that we have now achieved something of a record in this respect, in that we now employ more civil servants to collect taxes from 50 million British than the Americans employ to collect taxes from 200 million Americans?