84. Colonel Sir F. HALLasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the Royal Army Service Corps record office was amalgamated with the Royal Army Service Corps pay office on the 1st September, 1922, and the clerks in the former office receive a basic salary of 28s. per week, rising by two annual increments of 2s. each to 32s. per week, while the clerks employed in the pay office have a basic salary of 28s. per week, rising by five annual increments of 2s. each to 38s. per week; and, in view of the fact that there consequently exists the anomaly of two sets of clerks being employed in the same office and of the same status, but drawing different rates of pay owing to the system of payment of increments, will he have inquiries made forthwith into the matter, with the object of having the discrepancy corrected?
§ Captain KINGThe different scales of pay which were in operation in the Royal Army Service Corps pay office and 441 record office, respectively, were continued after the amalgamation of the two offices pending the general re-organisation of clerks and writers in War Department out-station establishments. A scheme of re-organisation is now under discussion with the appropriate Whitley Council.
§ Captain KINGIt is not a report; it is a discussion between the staff and the official side, and the. negotiations are now in a very advanced stage.
§ Captain KINGWe have to await the result of the negotiations between the two sides.