§ MR. FISHER (Fulham)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will explain on what grounds those Civil Service writers who have been promoted to the permanent ranks of the Civil Service have been refused payment of a part of the bonus to which they appear to be entitled under the Treasury Minute of December, 1886; and whether those writers were in any way notified of the pecuniary loss which they would sustain if they accepted promotion between the dates upon which the instalments of bonus were payable?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamNo copyist can receive bonus in respect of a broken period of less than half-a-year's copyists' service immediately preceding his appointing to a permanent post, half-a-year's service being the necessary condition, under the Treasury Minute, for the payment of such bonus. In reply to the second part of the question, I should explain that the Treasury have expressed themselves willing to allow to any copyist appointed to a permanent post the option of waiting for the next accruing bonus before taking up the new appointment.