§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state how many clerical appointments were made in London to the Colonial Audit Branch of the Exchequer and Audit Department from its establishment in 1889 to the date of its reorganisation in 1906; and how many of these appointments were 19 given by the respective comptrollers respectively to Second Division clerks, to University graduates, and to men neither graduates nor Second Division clerks, who were admitted without Civil Service examination.
§ (Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The appointments in question were in the hands of the Comptroller and Auditor-General for the time being. The salaries of the officers appointed were not paid out of the British funds, and the Treasury has had no cognisance of or control over the appointments. I am, however, informed by the Comptroller and Auditor-General that the number of clerical appointments made was seventy-two, including five Second Division clerks, five other civil servants, and twenty-two University graduates.