§ MR. T. W. LEGH (Lancashire, S. W., Newton.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education—(1) whether Mr. J. H. Levy, a a clerk of the First Class in the Education Department, has been appointed Examiner of School Accounts and Registers, with an addition to his salary of £100 per annum; (2) whether the duties of the new post are of a different character from those hitherto discharged by Mr. Levy in his capacity as a First Class Clerk; and (3) upon what grounds it has been thought right to select him for a position of greater dignity and emolument in preference to colleagues of longer service and experience?
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. A. H. D. ACLAND, York, W. R., Rotherham)The answer to the first paragraph of the question is in the affirmative. The duties of the new post are of a more extended and important character than those hitherto discharged by Mr. Levy. He was selected for the position on the ground of his special acquaintance with the kind of work which it will involve.
§ MR. LEGHCan the right hon. Gentleman say whether or not Mr. Levy is a very energetic member of the National Liberal Club, and also whether on a recent occasion he did not take a prominent part in the organisation of the festivities at which the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer met in social intercourse?
§ MR. ACLANDI am not aware. If the hon. Member means to say that I made this appointment on the ground of politics he is wrong. It was strongly pressed upon me by the Head of the Department.