HC Deb 29 April 1895 vol 33 cc14-5
MR. WILLIAM WHITELAW

I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether his attention has been drawn to the case of Captain Griffiths, Local Inspector at Glasgow under the Science and Art Department, who has received notice of the termination of his appointment on 31st August next, and to other similar cases; and whether, as these appointments are being terminated for no fault on the part of the present holders, he is able to promise that those who will be affected by the new regulations will be employed in some other work by the Department, or awarded reasonable compensation?

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. A. H. D. ACLAND,) York, W.R., Rotherham

This case, together with others of a similar nature, has received my full consideration. The employment of some of the local inspectors will cease in August next, and of others in August 1896. All these officers who were under 45 years of age have, with one or two exceptions, been offered, or are to be offered, permanent appointments on the new staff; but it is not possible to hold out hopes of retaining any over that age. The Department has expressed its thanks for the services which have been rendered by these gentlemen, but as the appointments were always most clearly understood to be only from year to year, no claim for compensation or for other employment can arise.