§ MR. J. R. YORKEasked the President of the Local Government Board, If he will explain to the House on what principle the Local Government Board determine the number of years which they sometimes add to the actual period served by union officers when establishing the basis on which to calculate the amount of annual compensation allowance to be granted to such officers when the offices they may have held have been abolished; and, whether he is aware that some persons still in the receipt of such annual compensation allowances also hold salaried offices under union authorities; and, if so, whether he has considered how such a state of things should be made to cease?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTHSir, the Local Government Board, in determining the number of years to be added to the actual period served, follow the scale laid down by the Treasury in the cases of members of the Civil Service whose offices are abolished—namely, in the case of persons who have served less than five years, an addition of one year; 1342 less than 10 years, an addition of three years; less than 15 years, an addition of five years; less than 20 years, an addition of seven years; and for 20 years and upwards, an addition of 10 years. It is quite true that some persons to whom compensation allowances have been awarded under the Metropolitan Poor Act have since been appointed to salaried offices under other Union authorities; but the Local Government Board, as administrators of the common poor fund, out of which both the pensions and salaries are defrayed, take care that the second salary, together with the pension, shall not exceed the original salary in respect of which the pension was granted.