§ Mr. CHARLES DUNCANasked the Secretary to the Treasury in which other departments of the public service men are employed under conditions of service similar to those of dockyard writers; and what proposals of the Admiralty based on the Macnamara Report the Treasury did not feel able to sanction'?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hobhouse)Persons under conditions of service similar to those of dockyard writers are employed in the War Office and Army Ordnance Department in considerable numbers, and any suggestions for change in their conditions of service have also to be considered in relation to employés of the Board of Education, Probate Registry, and many other Departments. It would not be possible to answer the last part of the question without the publication of the correspondence, a course to which I am not prepared to agree.
§ Mr. CHARLES DUNCANasked whether, with reference to the Macnamara Report on the writing staff of the royal dockyards, further communications have been received; and can a date be now given when the Treasury concurrence with the Admiralty proposals will be announced?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe answer to both parts of the question is in the negative.