§ 31. Mr. GOLDSTONEasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state how many messengers and porters, temporary and permanent, serving in Government Departments are in receipt of salaries of less that 40s. per week; whether none of these Civil servants have received a war bonus; and whether, in view of the increase in the cost of living, 1404 the Treasury will reconsider the question of granting a war bonus to the lower-paid classes in the Civil Service?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. McKinnon Wood)The information asked for in the first part of the question could not be obtained without an undue expenditure of time and labour. The answer to the second part of the question is in the affirmative. The question of granting a war bonus to the lower-paid classes in the Civil Service is under consideration.