HC Deb 12 May 1893 vol 12 cc786-7
MR. HANBURY

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Inland Revenue chemists, or any of them, employed in the Laboratory at Somerset House, are allowed to undertake private practice as consulting or analytical chemists?

SIR J. T. HIBBERT

The staff employed in the laboratory attached to the Inland Revenue Department have the same liberty of action with regard to the employment of their leisure as the rest of the Civil Service. They would not, of course, be allowed to enter into engagements which the Board of Inland Revenue considered inconsistent with or prejudicial to a proper performance of their official duties.