§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that a number of assistant clerks (new class) have received no benefit whatever from the slightly improved scale of salary granted by the Treasury two years ago, and that these officers are thus in receipt of a salary £10 a year less than that allowable to new entrants after the same amount of service; and whether he will take steps to have the officers in question placed on an equal footing as regards salary with junior members of their class, and if any compensation is proposed to be given them for the loss they have already sustained.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (Mr. VICTOR CAVENDISH,) Derbyshire, W.I am unable to give retrospective effect to the concession granted in 1902. The officers to whom the hon. Member refers, though they may not have benefited by the concession, sustained no loss whatever thereby.
§ MR. NANNETTIWill the hon. Gentleman look into the Order in Council?
§ MR. VICTOR CAVENDISHasked that any further Question should be given notice of.