§ Mr. HUGH BARRIEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps are being taken to carry out the establishment of the clerical staff of the surveyors of taxes; and whether these are being recruited from boy clerks, local and registered?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe Treasury have sanctioned the establishment of 200 out of the 629 clerks employed in the Tax Surveys, and 199 of them have actually been placed on the Establishment. The surveyors' unestablished clerical staff is recruited from Civil Service boy clerks and local boy clerks already in surveyors' offices; failing a sufficient supply of qualified men from these sources then from Civil Service boy clerks from other Departments, and occasionally, when none of these are available, from outside sources.