§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that there are in the Education Department certain senior assistant clerks (Abstractor Class) who are checking the work of assistant clerks recently promoted from the position of temporary clerical assistants, whose increment, in consequence of their being in receipt of less than £120, is only £2 10s., or just half that of the men whose work they check; and whether he is prepared to remove this inequality by increasing the increment of the senior assistant clerks to the same sum (£5) as that received by promoted temporary clericalassistants.
(Answer.) My attention has more than once boon called to the differences in the scales of remuneration of the old and new classes of assistant clerks, but, after careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that there is no reason for making any further change in the scale of the former class. The distribution of work within the Education Department is, of course, a matter over which I have no control.—(Treasury.)