§ MR. ALFRED HUTTON (Yorkshire, W.R., Morley)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that the Bradford City Council has declined to pay the annual increases in salary due to their officials in the education office, increases which arise under the scale and are part of the contract made by the defunct school board; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) I am informed that, subject to certain exceptions, the Bradford City Council have not adopted the recommendations made to them by their education committee to advance the salaries of the official staff in accordance with a fixed scale. The scale I understand to be that upon which the officers were appointed or their salaries were fixed by the late school board. I lave no authority to take action in the matter, but I learn from the town clerk that he has recently reported to the finance and general purposes committee of the council to the effect that, in his opinion, the officers are legally entitled to these fixed increases of salary. He adds that this opinion has not yet been considered by the education committee, or the council sitting as the education authority.