§ MR. MACVEAGH (Down, S.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that clerks to surveyors of taxes, although discharging confidential duties with regard to the assessing and collection of income tax, are unestablished; and whether he proposes to put into force the scheme of the Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, or to institute an inquiry into the status and treatment of these clerks.
(Answer.) The status and remuneration of clerks to surveyors of taxes were fully considered by the Treasury and the Board of Inland Revenue in 1899; and the rates of remuneration were substantially improved in the following year. There is no intention of placing these clerks on the permanent establishment of the Inland Revenue Department; and no useful purpose would be served by such an inquiry as the hon. Member suggests.—(Treasury.)