§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether one of the principal allegations made on behalf of the Civil 1479 Service Writers is that they are employed on superior duties contrary to regulation, and whether the Departmental Committee appointed to consider their claims gave notice to the heads of the respective Departments of the time when they proposed to pay their visits; whether the Committee only inspected the work done by a few writers in each Department; and, if so, upon what principle the selections were made; and, whether an opportunity will be given to some members of the Writers' Class personally to represent their grievances to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)I do not think it necessary or desirable to enter on detailed answers as to the action taken by the Departmental Committee; but it may be sufficient answer to the hon. Member if I say that the Committee in question asked two or three of their number to inspect samples of the higher class work done by writers in different departments. This was done; but the visit was not intended to be in any general sense a visit of inspection of the writers. I am awaiting the Report of the Committee, and when I have received it I will decide what further steps are desirable.