§ SIR R. TEMPLE (Surrey, Kingston)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state why, in the case of any index compiler and statistical abstractor recently appointed to the General Register Office, the ordinary practice of the service has been departed from; and why his earnings of 9s. 9d. per day during the last 12 mouths' service as a temporary registered copyist were not allowed to him instead of a commencing salary of 8s. per day, seeing that no part of such service was rendered in the Census Office during the Census of 1891?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI am not aware of any departure from the ordinary practice in the matter referred to. The pay of 9s. 9d. a day quoted by my hon. Friend included payment for temporary work connected with the Census, and is not an element in the calculation of the initial salary of an abstractor.