§ MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture what are the percentages of increase of salary given the Ordnance Survey Staff in the years from 1883 to 1890, and when was the new scheme of increase of pay communicated to the men?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. CHAPLIN,) Lincolnshire, SleafordIf I understand the question of the hon. Member rightly, I may say in reply that there is no regular progressive increase of salary given to the civil assistants of the Ordnance Survey. I stated in my reply to a similar question on the 8th inst. that increase of pay in the Ordnance Survey Department is dependent on increased efficiency, combined with length of service. The average pay in the skilled branches of the Survey is now from 15 to 30 per cent. higher than it was eight or nine years ago. But no new scheme of increase of pay has been proposed, and therefore no such scheme has been communicated to the men.