§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether abstractors, assistant clerks, in the Exchequer and Audit Department are now employed on work lately performed by Second Division clerks; and whether the actual salaries now being received by these abstractors are much less than the actual salaries at present given to nominated messengers who serve in this Department.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) At the recent reorganisation of the Exchequer and Audit Department a limited number of assistant clerks (abstractors) were introduced in lieu of Second Division clerks to perform, under careful supervision, the routine work connected with the keeping of duplicate records of the Chancery Suitors Fund (England). The salaries of the assistant clerks so employed are on the scale in force for their grade throughout the Civil Service.