HC Deb 11 July 1927 vol 208 cc1722-4
43. Captain ARTHUR EVANS

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the length of vacation annually granted to clerks of all grades in His Majesty's Customs and Excise Departments?

The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)

The annual leave allowed to members of the different grades of the clerical class employed in the Customs and Excise Department is as follows:

Annual leave. Days.
Temporary and permanent unestablished clerks 18
Clerical class — junior grade 24
Clerical class — higher grade (and staff clerks) 36
Staff officers, senior staff officers, chief clerks and senior chief clerks 36*
*Rising to 48 days after 15 years' service in a grade entitled to 36 days.
These allowances apply to members of the Customs and Excise Departmental Clerical Class as well as to those members of the general Civil Service Clerical Class employed in the Department.

Captain A. EVANS

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is great dissatisfaction in business circles in the seaport of Cardiff at the lengthy holidays granted to the clerks in this Service: and does he not think, in view of the fact that such lengthy holidays are never granted in business, they should be curtailed in this Service?

Mr. McNEILL

I am not aware of the dissatisfaction to which my hon. and gallant Friend refers.

Mr. H. WILLIAMS

Do any people in the public service in fact take two months' holiday?

Mr. T. WILLIAMS

Has the hon. Member ever complained about the four or five

Dominion. Expenditure from British Funds. Expenditure by Dominion Government. Total Cost. Number of Migrants.
£ £ £
Australia … … … 358,391 356,781 715,172 31,638
Canada … … … 214,904 102,833 317,737 19,573
New Zealand … … … 127,826 136,764 264,590 11,292
Total … … … 701,121 596,378 1,297,499 62,503

A portion of the expenditure from British funds is in connection with schemes under which part of the cost

months' holiday which he takes from Parliament during the year?