§ VISCOUNT HELMSLEY (Yorkshire, N.R., Thirsk)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury on what grounds it is considered that the salaries paid to the staff of the Board of Agriculture are adequate for the requirements of that Department; what was the last occasion on which the scale of salaries in force was revised; and whether he is aware that the many fresh duties imposed on that Department by legislation have been of an onerous character.
§ MR. RUNCIMANI fear I cannot explain in answer to a Question the various considerations which guide the Treasury in deciding on applications for increased scales of salary in the public 538 service. The last revision of salaries in the Board of Agriculture took effect from the 1st April, 1906. I am unable to say whether the fresh duties imposed on the Department by legislation can properly be described as "onerous."