§ SIR GEORGE MCCRAE (Edinburgh, E.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether it is a rule of the Post Office that time spent in travelling on its service is reckoned as duty; whether a number of officers on the Edinburgh telegraph staff returning to headquarters on various Sundays after season duty at Lerwick have received payment for the time so occupied; and, if not, whether in future officers shall not be required to travel in their own time on Post Office service.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) It is not the practice, except in certain cases, to reckon time spent in travelling as duty. I am not aware of more than one case in which members of the Edinburgh telegraph staff applied for payment for time spent in returning to headquarters from Lerwick on Sundays, and in that instance the claim was refused. The two officers in question received the usual subsistence allowance covering the time spent in travelling