§ MR. AIRD (Paddington, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, with reference to Clause IX. of the Treasury Minute, dated 4th February, 1890, concerning the Clerks of the 2nd Division, whether the £190, on obtaining which a Clerk is to receive an annual increment of £10, is intended to include his gross salary, i.e. ordinary salary, together with duty pay when in receipt of the latter?
§ THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON, Leeds, N.)Under the Treasury Minute of February 4th, 1890, the annual increment of £10 is intended to take effect when the salary, apart from duty pay, has risen to £190.
§ MR. JOHN KELLY (Camberwell, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether under the terms of the Treasury Minute of February 4th, 1890, the right of promotion to the First Class of the Second Division will be secured, to the clerks serving six hours a day on their attaining their maximum salary of £200, provided the necessary certificate of merit can be granted; and whether under the terms of such Treasury Minute it is intended to compensate clerks subsequently called upon to give a regular daily service of seven hours by the sum of £15 per annum for the extra hour, as prescribed by the Orders in Council of February 12th, 1876, and July 15th, 1881?
§ MR. JACKSONIt is not provided in the Treasury Minute of February 4, 1890, that a vacancy shall be created in the First Class of the Second Division whenever a Second Division clerk, working six hours a day, reaches a salary of £200; but it is the hope of the Treasury that the seven hours' system may shortly be adopted for all clerks of the Second Division, in which case they will be entitled to the benefits of Section 10 of the Minute. The compensation to be given to six-hours' clerks who are called upon, before promotion to the First Class, to work seven hours will be £15.