§ 18. Mr. TOUCHEasked the scale of remuneration of tailors in the receiver's department of the Metropolitan Police?
§ Mr. McKENNASeven tailors are employed, of whom five are permanent. The foreman tailor receives 42s. a week, two tailors receive 38s., and four tailors receive 36s. The permanent tailors are pensionable.
§ 19. Mr. TOUCHEasked whether there have been any retirements of higher officials in the receiver's department of the Metropolitan Police during this year; and what retiring allowances have been granted?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe only such retirement is that of the second surveyor, to whom a pension of £344 10s. a year has been awarded.
§ 20. Mr. TOUCHEasked when the remuneration of clerks of works in the receiver's department of the Metropolitan Police was last increased?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe remuneration of the permanent clerks of works was increased in 1907; that of the temporary-clerks of works in the current year.
§ 21. Mr. TOUCHEasked how many voluntary resignations from the Metropolitan Police Force (not on pension) there have been during the present year?
§ Mr. McKENNAThere have been 103 such resignations since the 1st January last—about the ordinary proportion.
§ 22. Mr. TOUCHEasked how long it is since the wages of the general staff in the 529 receiver's department of the Metropolitan Police have been revised; and what section of workers has gone for the longest period without a revision of wages?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe salaries of the general staff, by which I presume the hon. Member means the clerical establishment, of the receiver's office, were revised in 1909; the class of workers whose wages have remained unaltered for the longest period are the tailors employed in the store department, but three members of that class have recently received increases of pay.