Wages control account, Mar 1946-Dec 1952

Account book containing information on the amount of money spent on wages and other personnel related costs (such as tax and pensions). The figures are given either for each financial period (a financial year was divided into 13 periods) or on a weekly basis.

This account book only gives a summary of the total amounts paid under particular account codes (no information about the wages of individuals is included).

There are two types of table:
1. Details of transfers of funds etc under various account codes. The account codes are not described in this volume, but can be used to cross-refer to other account books and it should be possible to work out a code by referring to other volumes (B8 for example is staff catering, as listed in the weekly wages summaries).
2. Details of personnel related expenditure under various account codes: D3 [Personnel Office & Training Centre]; Income Tax; National Insurance; National Savings; H.S.F.; S.S.P.F. [Senior Staff Pension Fund]; S.P.S. [Staff Pension Scheme]; Teas; Loans; Works; Housekeeping Deductions; S.S.A. [Sainsbury's Staff Association]; Rent; Cash [this is the largest figure - possibly it means the amount of cash paid to staff as wages?]; Total.

The first type of table appears to represent the debits into the account (perhaps transfers into the account from departmental accounts) and the second table appears to represent the credits paid out of the account. The total sums from the two tables balance with each other.