HC Deb 22 December 1893 vol 20 c196
MR. R. WALLACE (Edinburgh, E.)

I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland when the Report of the Census of Scotland (1891) was completed; whether the extra work done in connection therewith by the permanent officials engaged in its preparation was greater upon this occasion than was the case in connection with the Census of 1881; and whether such officials have all been paid for their extra labour and additional time expended by them on this work?

* THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR,&c.) Clackmannan,

The Report of the Census of Scotland, 1891, was completed last September. The amount of extra work in connection with its preparation was, I am informed by the Registrar General, greater than on any previous occasion. It has been arranged that the officials, with the exception of the Registrar General himself, shall be paid for the extra labour and additional time expended by them on the work, but I am still in communication with the Treasury on certain points.