§ Colonel PRYCE-JONESasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that General Order No. 54, 1912, issued recently by the Board of Customs and Excise, reduces the rate of overtime payment from 2s. to 1s. 6d. per hour in the case of officers, recently examining officers, who were prior to the enforcing of the above order in receipt for several years of 2s. per hour for all extra attendance; and whether, in view of the intentions of the Hobhouse Commission that, so far as it is possible, no officer is to suffer monetary loss as the result of the amalgamation of the Customs and Excise Departments, he will give instructions to the Board of Customs and Excise to annul this order by exempting all examining officers from the new rate of 1s. 6d. and allowing them the 2s. per hour to which they feel they are entitled?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given yesterday by my right hon. Friend the Secretary to the Treasury in answer to a similar question by the hon. Member for North Islington.