§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether an application has reached the Treasury from the Education Department for £3 3s. per week for a temporary typewriting clerk; whether he is aware that this clerk has passed no examination and has less than four years' service, whereas Second Division clerks must pass a severe competitive examination and serve 14 years before reaching a salary equal to that proposed, which is moreover unattainable by assistant clerks in the same Department, some of whom have over 20 years' service; whether the salary of the officer superintending the typewriters at the Local Government Board, whose duties include translations, 269 shorthand, typewriting, and attendance at interviews, is only 30s. per week: and, whether there are several of the permanent staff' competent to perform the duties required from the clerk for whom the application above referred to is made?
§ MR. HANBURYI am not prepared to communicate to the hon. Member what, if any, proposals affecting the establishment of other Departments are before the Treasury. Any proposal submitted by the Education Office will receive full consideration.