HC Deb 09 February 1897 vol 46 c7
MR. VICARY GIBBS (Herts, St. Albans)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he will give an assurance that, in any steps which may be taken consequent on the Report of the Tweedmouth Commission on Post Office Establishments, nothing shall be done to in any way prejudice the prospects of the clerical staff, who were expressly debarred from giving evidence before the Commission?

THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) Preston

No class of Post Office servants will suffer for want of any evidence which they might have desired to lay before Lord Tweed-mouth's Committee, but it is obviously impossible to say that the clerical staff, or indeed any other section of the Post Office staff, may not regard as a grievance any changes which may be made in the organisation of the service.