§ Mr. COLLINGS (Lambeth, Kennington)To ask the Secretary of the 385 Treasury if he will state on what grounds he declines to grant to assistant clerks (new class) a rate of overtime pay equivalent to one and a quarter times the rate awarded for their ordinary work, and thus applying to that body of civil servants the rate laid down by the Tweedmouth Commission of 1896 with respect to postal servants and acted upon by the Government.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The "time and a quarter" rate, in force for certain classes of Post Office employees, has never been applied to the clerical staff in public departments; the conditions of employment in which are not comparable with those in the Post Office.