Staff of N.D.C.

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32848, 23 February 1972, Page 16

Staff of N.D.C.

Comments by an industrial liaison scientist, Mr F. E. Studt, reported in “The Press” about a week ago, that the National Development Council seemed in danger of developing into something of a second civil service—“the first is quite big enough,” have been replied to by the council’s director of pubilicity, Mr K. R. Hancock. In a letter to the editor of "The Press”, Mr Hancock says the N.D.C.’s staff; —all civil servants —is nine, six of whom are economists. The N.D.C. has 16 sector councils, seven of which, mostly statutory bodies, were established and working before the first National Development Conference. “The council’s staff is 40— all civil servants. Sixteen of them are engaged full time on sector council work and 22 of the remainder give 50 per cent or less of their working time to such duties. Overall, the N.D.C. and its sector councils have a staff of 49, almost half of them part time. “In general, staff are drawn from departments appropriate to particular sector councils and they are helped in their work by information the departments have aquired in the normal course of operations,” Mr Hancock says.