MR.To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that while Civil Service certificates have been either granted or promised to certain of the temporary civil assistants of the Ordnance Survey the quid pro quo demanded by the Treasury in abatement of pay is to date from 28th November, 1906; and that this abatement is to be paid up in bulk by the 31st March; and whether he will arrange that the abatement should date from the granting of the Civil Service certificates.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The date fixed for the commencement of the abatements from the pay of those civil assistants who are placed on the establishment is that of the Treasury letter sanctioning the grant of pensions; and I am not prepared to vary it.