§ MR. T. LOUGH (Islington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the Treasury asked the Commissioners of Prisons, in a Minute of even date (10th August 1889), for a Return to be filled up under two heads, viz., clerks of the Lower Division and other established clerks, rising 1631 through one or more classes to a maximum not exceeding £400 per annum, including duty pay; and, if the competitive clerks in Her Majesty's prisons, who paid an examination fee of £3, entitling them in the customary course of promotion to a maximum of £400 pet annum, were not included in this Return under the head referring to that maximum, will the Treasury send it back for correction in this particular, and exchange these clerks' certificates for those of the Second Division in order that the Royal Commissioners' recommendations for the Civil Service as a whole may be acted upon?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. H. H. ASQUITH, Fife, E.)The Return referred to was duly sent to the Treasury by the Home Office, and the prison clerks were included in it. The storekeepers and first- and second-class clerks of the Prison Department were placed in this Return under the head of "Established Clerks" (other than the Lower Division), rising through one or more classes to a salary not exceeding £400 a year.