MR. BAETLEY (Islington, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why no first-class clerks have been appointed to the prisons at Carlisle, Carmarthen, Brecon, Lancaster, and Derby, and no first-class storekeepers to Holloway and Stafford Prisons, as provided for in the Law and Justice Estimates for the current year; and whether he will publish the details of the staff of the various convict prisons in next year's Estimates, in similar manner to those of the local prisons, 1046 now that the two branches are amalgamated?
§ MR. ASQUITHThe offices in question are filled by storekeepers and clerks of a different grade to what is provided in the Estimates, but when vacancies or opportunities' occur men of a higher grade will be transferred to them. There will be no avoidable delay in making the necessary changes. Brecon has never had a clerk; it is a very small prison, and the services of a clerk have not been thought necessary. It has already been settled that the staff of the convict prisons shall be detailed in the Estimates in future.