§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to a Letter from Mr. Adam Young, one of the Secretaries to the Board of Inland Revenue, addressed to the Civil Service Inquiry Commission, 1875, and published in the Appendix to their Third Report (page 66), which states that a slight addition to the salary of First-class Assistants had become necessary, and that that the average time in reaching that rank was two years, Whether there is at present any officer holding that rank with under four and a-half years' service; and, whether any addition, such as was stated to be necessary in 1875, has since been made to the salaries of these officers, whose number has increased from 227 in 1875 to 316 in 1886?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir WILLIAM HARCOURT) (Derby)The answer to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative, and to the second part of the Question in the negative.