§ COLONEL WYNDHAM-QUIN (Glamorganshire, S.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Treasury will be prepared to allow the holder of a staff post of the Second Division, on being promoted to the higher division, to carry with him the salary of the staff post, provided that such salary should in no case be higher than that of a clerk who had entered the First Division and had been an equal time in the public service.
(Answered by Mr. Elliot.) The rule is that a staff officer (other than the holder of a temporary staff post) who is promoted to the First Division shall enter that division either at the minimum of the scale of his new post, or, if he prefers, at the salary to which he would have risen if he had remained in the Second Division instead of being appointed to a staff post; provided that in no case shall his commencing salary in the First Division exceed the amount to which he would have risen by length of service if his original appointment had been to that division at the age of twenty-four. The rule was very carefully considered, and I am unable to recommend its alteration in the sense suggested. I do not think that it is unfair to the officers concerned.