§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that women clerks who are transferred from the General Post Office in London to offices in Dublin or Edinburgh have their maximum salaries reduced by £10 per annum in consequence of such transfer, while no reduction is made in the salaries of men 346 clerks similarly transferred; whether the duties of women clerks in the offices in Dublin and Edinburgh are identical with those of women clerks in London; whether this reduction of salary is not a violation of the condition upon which these clerks obtained their appointment; whether the prospects of promotion of these clerks is not very much lessened in in consequence of being transfered to the post offices in Dublin or Edinburgh; and whether he will consider the question with a view to patting all these women clerks, as far as possible, upon the same scale of salaries as to the women clerks in the General Post Office, London.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) I may, perhaps, be allowed to refer the hon. Member to the Answer which I gave on the 14th instant to a similar Question relating to transfers between London and Dublin asked by the hon. Member for South Belfast. Transfers to Edinburgh are arranged on the same lines as transfers to Dublin.