§ MR. H. C. F. LUTTRELL (Devon, Tavistock)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, by the closing of prisons and a number of classes, promotion in the prisons clerical staff is congested; and, if so, is it in contemplation to give the staff more permanent relief than that provided by the tentative scheme of December 1890?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQUITH,) Fife, E.The promotion in the clerical staff of the prisons can hardly be said to be congested, when there are 55 first class clerks who have not attained their maximum salaries and only 15 who have attained them; as regards the second class there are 36 clerks at their maximum, and 24 who have not yet attained it.