§ SIR G. KEKEWICH (Exeter)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury what is approximately the number of persons who, being employed in clerical work under conditions similar to those imposed upon the aged writers in the Board of Education, will, like them, be discharged with £100 gratuity each, and without a pension, as soon as age renders thorn unfit for further service.
§ MR. RUNCIMAN (for Mr. MCKENNA)So far as my information serves, the number of writers who are eligible on retirement for the gratuities allowable under the Treasury Minute of 1886 (including those in the employment of the Board of Education) is thirty-one