§ MR. DONAL SULLIVAN (Westmeath, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, with reference to the adjustments of increments and payments of arrears to the new Second Division clerks in connection with the conversion of triennial into annual increments, it is a fact that fractions, amounting in many cases to nearly the complete pound, have been excluded from such calculations, resulting in losses in these 453 instances both immediately and annually; and whether, in view of this, he will remedy this grievance and cause these arrears of increments to be calculated to the nearest pound?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON, Leeds, N.)It is true that, in accordance with the directions contained in the recent Order in Council, fractions of a pound are omitted in c inverting the triennial increments of Second Division clerks into annual increments. No power is reserved to the Treasury to modify these directions.