§ MR. TUITE (Westmeath, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, with reference to his observations on the 12th of last August on the discussion of the Civil Service Estimates, it was contemplated to request the heads of Departments to recommend for promotion writers of long service, engaged, upon superior work to copying, to the new established class which was being created in a few offices under the name of statistical abstractors?
§ MR. JACKSONIt is clearly not the office of the Treasury to request heads of Departments to recommend copyists for appointment to an intermediate class below the Second Division. Clause 29 of the Treasury Minute of the 10th of August, 1889, should, it appears to me be a sufficient guide to any head of a Department wishing to make such a recommendation. I may, perhaps, add that it is obvious that statistical abstractors can only be employed in offices where there is work corresponding to the title.