§ MR. ROBERT WALLACE (Edinburgh, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he can state what 1244 progress has been made with the inquiry into the question of messengers and others in the Scotch Public Departments taking remunerative employment as waiters during office hours; and what he proposes to do in the matter?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANThe inquiry has been made. The Treasury inform us that in the Department for which they are responsible they find that the messengers go out only after office hours, or on days which are invariably deducted from their annual leave. Even under these circumstances the Treasury have ordered that no leave shall be granted unless the duties of the office clearly admit it. The other Departments all answer in the same sense. In the Register House, which is perhaps the largest, there are eight attendants, only one of whom ever takes occasional employment as a waiter' after office hours or in his holidays.