§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury why the salaries of assistant clerks serving when the amended scale of pay was introduced in 1902 were not increased to the amount of which they would have been in receipt if the new scale had been in force at the date of their appointment, in accordance with the terms of Clause XV. of the Order in Council of November 29th, 1898, and following the precedent set in the case of the junior clerks in the Office of Woods, when their increments were raised in 1897.
(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) The question of giving retrospective effect to the concession granted to the assistant clerks in 1902 was fully considered at the time, and I am unable to depart from the decision then arrived at.