§ 37. Mr. PENNEFATHERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, as stated in the Press, boys of 17 years of age in the Civil Service receive salaries and bonus equal to £212 per annum, and that boys of 15 years of age in the Ministry of Health receive 35s. a week?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hilton Young)Boys of 17 years of age if employed in the clerical class would at the present rates of bonus, receive, in London, total remuneration at the rate of£159 a year, which will be reduced to £135 a year from the 1st September next on the revision of bonus. Few, if any, boys of this age are at present employed in this class. The total remuneration of boys of 17 in other classes of employment is considerably less and varies with the grade down to about 31s. 6d., which figure will likewise be reduced by the revision of bonus. As regards the last part of the question, I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for East Islington, on the 14th June.
§ Commander BELLAIRSHow can the hon. Gentleman tell the exact amount on 1st September next, seeing that an average is taken on the first of each month?