§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)asked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, pending the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Civil Service Establishments, he will refuse to sanction an increase of any official salary of £400 per annum and upwards (the usual annual increments excepted)?
§ THE CHANCELLOE OF THE EXCHEQUER (Lord EANDOLPII CHURCHILL) (Paddington, S.)I cannot give the ton. Member any absolute, definite, or binding pledge on the subject. But he may be certain that if any application for an increase of salary of the amount mentioned in the Question is laid before me, I should be largely influenced in its consideration by the fact that a State inquiry into this Department was going on.