§ MR. NANNETTITo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the heads of departments received private instructions to make no further recommendations for promotion of assistant clerks (new class) to the rank of second division clerks, although empowered to do so by a Treasury circular; and whether this accounts for the small proportion of assistant clerks (new class)
† See page 63.927 who have been promoted to the second division.(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) The Answer to the hon. Member's Question is in the negative.
§ MR. NANNETTITo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that assistant clerks now in their ninth year of service as assistant clerks (new class), and fourteenth year of service in all, receive less than £85 per annum, whereas tradesmen in the service of the Government and outside of it receive from £91 to £100 per annum for shorter periods of service; and if he will take steps to remove this disparity.
§ MR. NANNETTITo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that messengers in Government offices receive twenty-one days annual leave, whereas assistant clerks (new class) only receive fourteen days leave up to ten years, and after ten years service a maximum of eighteen days annual leave; and whether he is prepared to take any steps to place both classes on an equal footing in this respect.
§ MR. NANNETTITo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that assistant clerks (new class) now entering the service will reach their maximum (£150) after nineteen years service and others after twenty and twenty-two years service, with no prospect of any further increase in salary; and whether he will take steps to increase the maximum salary of the class or afford better facilities for the promotion of assistant clerks (new class) to the second division.
(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) I am unable to reconsider the question of the position and pay of assistant clerks, a decision as to which was only lately arrived at after most careful inquiry.