HC Deb 29 July 1898 vol 63 cc431-2
SIR F. DIXON-HARTLAND (Middlesex, Uxbridge)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, when copyists are required to produce a medical certificate when ill for only one day, whilst Second Division clerks, abstractors, etc., are allowed two days' sick leave before producing a medical certificate, a similar regulation can be extended to men copyists, seeing that, in addition to the cost of the certificate, the latter receive only three-fourths of their pay when sick?

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

Men copyists are not established civil servants, and the regulations which apply to established officers cannot be extended to them.