§ 108. Mr. WINGasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the guaranteeing of payment of the salary of clerks in County Courts where the issue of plaints is under 6,000 per annum be paid at the rates obtaining on 1st August, 1914, where it is proved that a diminution of process has resulted from the War, such clerks being willing to serve the Government in other clerical service?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEMy attention has already been called to the position of the clerks referred to by my hon. Friend, arid the Civil Service Commission have been notified that the services of these 172 clerks might in certain circumstances be available for temporary Government-work during the War. I understand that in many of these cases clerks are employed by the registrar in his private practice as a solicitor, and, according to my present information, there appears to be no tendency on the part of the registrars to dismiss their clerks. In these circumstances I am not at present disposed to take any further action.