§ Sir JOHN M'CALLUMasked the President of the Board of Trade the number of higher grade clerks, lower grade clerks, and clerk messengers in the Labour Exchanges in Scotland; how many of the higher grade clerks have over three years' service; how many over two years' service; how many over one year's service, together with the ages and sex of the higher grade clerks; and how many lower grade clerks there are with over three years' service who have not been promoted and the reason?
Mr. ROBERTSONThe numbers of clerks in the upper part of the scale, clerks in the lower part of the scale, and clerk messengers, in the Scottish Labour Exchanges, are fifty, thirty-eight, and twenty-three respectively. Of the clerks in the upper part of the scale, five are women, eleven of these clerks have had more than three, eleven between two and three, and five more than one year's service. Eighteen are under thirty years of age. There are four men and four women clerks in the lower part of the scale, with over three years' service, who have not been promoted. All these have been placed within the last twelve months on a regular incremental scale. There is, of course, no guarantee of promotion in any case.