§ 42. Mr. R. C. MORRISONasked the Postmaster-General how many employés of the Post Office engineering department are working systematic overtime; and what steps are being taken to obviate this?
§ Major TRYONI am not aware that systematic overtime is being worked in the Post Office engineering department. Its operations are expanding but every 21 endeavour is made to ensure that the provision of staff keeps pace with such expansion, and the personnel has been increased from about 30,000 to about 38,000 in the past two years. It is not, of course, practicable to eliminate overtime of an emergency character or where the circumstances are otherwise exceptional, but if the hon. Member knows of any instance in which the attendance is regarded as excessive and will let me have particulars, I will go further into the matter.