§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether a counter clerk and telegraphist, who temporarily performs the duties of an overseer and senior telegraphist, suffers during the period of such employment a reduction of 3s. per week in his total salary and emoluments; and whether the Postmaster General will give instructions that, while duty pay is 1101 not conceded, risk allowances shall not be forfeited during such temporary employment.
(Answer.) The risk allowances which are attached to certain duties are not intended to be a source of emolument: and when an officer who has been performing one of these duties ceases to perform it, he ceases to draw the risk allowance. The Postmaster General sees no reason for altering this rule.—(Post Office.)