§ MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the fact that there are several senior assistant clerks in the various Government Departments who have already reached their maximum of £150 per annum, 466 whose ages range from forty years and upwards, and who have little prospect of promotion, he can hold out any hope of conceding personal allowances, so that these persons may receive more than £ 150 in each year.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The scale was fixed as appropriate to the duties, and it is not reasonable to expect a grant of personal allowances merely because the maximum 'is attained in due course