§ MK. J. MACVEAGHTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that in a number of public departments (including the Post Office, Inland Revenue Office, Custom House, Admiralty, India Office, and Board of Education) a half-holiday is granted each Saturday to the members of the clerical staffs, and that in a few public departments this privilege is limited to alternate Saturdays; and will he say whether it is within the discretion of the heads of these latter departments to grant a weekly Saturday half-holiday, provided that the state of public business permits.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The hon. Member will find that my predecessor answered a similar Question by the hon. Member for Mid Cork on the 16th May last. I have nothing to add to that reply.