§ 51. Captain CROOKSHANKasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many civil servants are entitled to travel first-class in this country; and what would be the estimated saving if the regulations were altered and third-class travelling substituted?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEI am unable, without long investigation in every Department, to state the precise number of civil servants entitled to travel first-class when on duty in this country and the probable saving from substituting third-class travel. Those so entitled correspond to the commissioned ranks of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
§ Captain CROOKSHANKCan the hon. Member not even give me an approximate figure, saying whether it amounts to hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCECertainly not the former.