HC Deb 08 May 1893 vol 12 c1533
MR. MACDONALD (Tower Hamlets, Bow)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will explain on what grounds the Lords of the Treasury have, in reply to a recent Memorial, removed the age limit to 50, which had previously been laid down as the maximum beyond which approval to nominations to promotion to the rank of abstractor or assistant clerk had been refused, and substituted a limit of 60 years?

THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) Oldham

The Treasury have altered the limit of age to 60 because, after consideration of representations that had been made to them, they came to the conclusion that the concession was reasonable.