§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state the number of clerks to surveyors of taxes who have received compassionate grants during the past ten years; will he state the highest grant given to any one clerk; and whether he will state how long such clerk served in the Taxes Department.
§ (Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The system of granting gratuities on retirement to clerks to surveyors of taxes was only introduced in March, 1905. Since then gratuities have been granted to three clerks. The highest amount given to any one clerk was £78 in respect of a service of thirty-nine years.