HC Deb 12 July 1900 vol 85 c1315
MR. STEADMAN (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he is aware that in consequence of the removal of the Inland section to Mount Pleasant, necessitating as it has done protracted deliveries, some of the men have been working two or three hours in excess of their proper time daily, and will he state whether they will receive pay for the overtime thus worked.

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

The Postmaster General would be glad if the hon. Member would state to what body of men his question refers. No deliveries are made from the Inland section at Mount Pleasant. The general practice is that whenever postmen are for some special reason detained at the office and thus prevented from starting on their deliveries at the usual hour they shall be paid for such detention, provided it is not less than half-an-hour and the full normal attendance for the week is given.

MR. STEADMAN

Is it not a fact that some of the men have been working as many as twenty hours a week overtime in order to meet the extra work entailed upon them by the removal from St. Martin's-le-Grand to Mount Pleasant? They want to know if they are to be paid for that overtime.

MR. HANBURY

I understand that there are no deliveries at all from Mount Pleasant.

MR. STEADMAN

Then I will furnish the right hon. Gentleman with the names of men who have been doing the work.