§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if, in consideration of the responsibility attaching to the duties performed by those assistant clerks in the customs who are in receipt of the checking allowances for supervising the work of other assistant clerks, he will grant an addition to their annual leave in accordance with the practice which formerly obtained in the Customs Department in the case of lower division clerks in receipt of duty pay.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain). The two cases are not analogous, and I can make no exception to the decision already communicated to the hon. Member on the 23rd and 30th ultimo.