§ 107. Sir CYRIL COBBasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the amount of annual leave granted to the various classes of employés in the different Departments of State, in addition to Bank
| Scales of Annual Leave of principal commons classes. | |
| Classes prior to re-organisation. | Present Classes. |
| Higher Division: | Administrative Class: |
| 36 days; after 10 years, 48 days. | 36 days; after 10 years, 48 days. |
| Intermediate Clerks: | Higher Executive Class: |
| Staff Clerks with maxima of £450 or over: | 36 days; after 15 years in grade carrying 36 days, 48 days. |
| Not exceeding 36 days. | |
| Assistant Superintendents (Women): | Higher Executive Class: |
| 27 days. | 36 days; after 15 years in grade carrying 36 days, 48 days. |
| Second Division Clerks: | Lower Executive Class: |
| 14 days; after 4 years, 21 days; after 10 years 28 days. | 36 days. |
| Principal Clerks (Women): | Higher Clerical Class: |
| 27 days. | 36 days. |
| Supervising Assistant Clerks: | Higher Clerical Class: |
| 27 days. | 36 days. |
| Women Clerks (First and Second Class): | Lower Executive Class: |
| 27 days generally. | 36 days. |
| Lower Clerical Class: | |
| 24 days. | |
| Assistant Clerks: | Lower Clerical Class: |
| 14 days; after 4 years, 18 days; after 10 years, 24 days. | 24 days. |
| Writing Assistants: | Writing Assistants: |
| 14 days; after 5 years, 21 days. | 18 days; after 5 years, 21 days. |
| Chief Superintendents of Typists: | Chief Superintendents of Typists: |
| 28 days. | 30 days. |
| Superintendents of Typists: | Superintendents of Typists: |
| 21 days. | 24 days. |
| Shorthand Typists: | Shorthand Typists: |
| 18 days. | 21 days; after 5 years in the grade, 24 days. |
| Typists: | Typists: |
| 18 days. | 18 days; after 5 years, 21 days. |
§ Holidays and the King's birthday; whether during recent years there has been any increase, and, if so, to what extent is such leave granted to any of the various classes of employés; and whether such leave involves the employment of extra official help, and, if so, to what extent and at what cost?
§ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Sir Robert Horne)I will circulate in the Official Report a statement of the annual leave allowed, subject to the exigencies of the public service, to the clerical classes which are common to the service, and of the annual leave formerly allowed to such classes. Departmental establishments are fixed on consideration of all the factors, of which the necessity for annual leave is one, but it would not be possible to give any precise estimate of the extent to which staff could be reduced by a restriction of the limits of leave.
§ The following is the statement promised: