MR. CABLILE (Hertfordshire, St. Albans)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that the present salaries of the Second Division clerks in the Estate Duty Office may be taken to represent, on the average, the true worth and ability of the men, and that those clerks who are selected for promotion will be the more competent and meritorious of them, he will state on what grounds it is proposed that from and after their promotion to work which has hitherto been performed largely by fully-qualified solicitors, these men should be remunerated by salaries lower in the aggregate for some twenty years than the ordinary scale of second division pay.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) I have nothing to add to the replies which I gave to the hon. Member for St. Patrick's Division of Dublin and the hon. Member for Clapham on 13th July last, and on the 10th ultimo, to which I would refer the hon. Member.