§ 30. Mr. BENNETTasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the practice is in existence under which all members of the typing grades under Treasury control have to complete daily a detailed return of the actual amount they have typed; whether, in that case, he will state the Departments in which this practice still exists and those in which it has been abolished; what is the need for such a compilation; and whether, as it wastes time and money, he will abolish the system?
The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Guinness)Yes, Sir. The system which is generally in force throughout the service affords a valuable check on the relation of the staffs employed to the work performed, and I am unable to agree that it is wasteful.