§ Mr. GEORGE ROBERTSasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, with regard to the Supplementary Estimate of £3,535 for assistant examiners in the Civil 1243 Service Commission, he can state the number of assistant examiners, the number of candidates who attended examinations, and what increase is represented by this number?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hobhouse)The Assistant Examiners under Subhead B are paid by fees, and not by salaries. The increase is not in the number of Assistant Examiners occasionally employed, but in the amount of fees payable for setting and examining candidates' papers. The number of candidates who presented Orders for examination in the year 1910–11 to the 27th January was 32,382, an increase of 9,569 over the number presented to the same date in 1909–10.