MR. SGHWANNTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he will state what proportion of sub-postmasters are in receipt of a, fixed salary; in receipt of £20 or loss; in receipt of £50 or leas (but more than £20); and why, at the triennial revision of sub postmasters salaries, when a general advance is due, the advances are in some cases held over for a further period.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The salaries of all sub-postmasters are fixed under an authorised scale in accordance with the amount of business transacted at their offices, and an increase of salary when due is not held over except in the case of unsatisfactory conduct. The further particulars asked for by the hon. Member could not be furnished without much labour, which the Post-master General thinks it hardly necessary to undertake, there being more than 20,000 sub-offices in the United Kingdom.