§ MR. O. V. MORGAN (Battersea)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, with regard to the mechanics and labourers employed at the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, Whether he is willing to increase their limit of time for sick pay during illness from 16 to 28 days; whether he is prepared to make an addition of 12 days to their present holidays; and, whether he is prepared to place them generally on the same terms as the messengers and attendants employed in the Department?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford)In. accordance with the arrangements made with the Treasury, the artizans and labourers are taken on without examination by the Civil Service Commissioners at the ordinary market rate of the building trade. I am in correspondence with the Treasury on the subject of their sick pay; but I am not prepared to recommend any other change, or to place them on the same footing as the messengers and attendants, who have to obtain Civil Service certificates.