§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanark, N.W.)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Government has any intention of improving in any way the present unsatisfactory-position of the Civil Service Writers, many of whom have already served the State continuously for a period of 20 years, and only receive, after eight-and-a-half years' service, an annual bonus of 30s., increasing annually at the rate of 1d. per day?
§ MR. GOSCHENThe case of the registered copyists was examined into by the Royal Commission on Civil Establishments, who stated in their second Report that they had before them—
The representatives of the copyists, hut we cannot report that, in our opinion, they have estahlished any grievance which it is the duty of the State to remedy.