§ MR. HAZLETON (Galway, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 955 whether the clerk in charge of accounts under the Local Government Board applied to be placed upon the new maximum salary of his office before he was so placed; to whom did he apply; who recommended that he should be placed upon the new maximum salary; was the recommendation or application considered either by the Local Government Board or by the Treasury; and whether copies of the correspondence relating to this case will be available for inspection.
§ MR. BIRRELLOn the passing of the Labourers Act the clerk in charge of accounts applied to the Local Government Board for an increase of salary, and his application was recommended by the Board to the favourable consideration of the Treasury. The Treasury fixed a new scale of salary for the post—namely, £350, rising by increments to £500; and gave authority for at once placing the existing clerk of accounts, whose then salary was £450, on the new maximum of £500. It would be contrary to practice to produce the correspondence between the Treasury and the Local Government Board, but the Public Accounts Committee, of which the hon. Gentleman is a member, will of course have full power to call for all Papers.