§ Sir JOHN BETHELLasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will restore to those officers of Customs and Excise, late Customs port clerks, lower section, the twenty-four days' annual leave to which they were entitled after five years' service, in view of the fact that the Hobhouse Committee declared any reduction of leave to be inequitable except on promotion and that the recent Royal Commission recommended increased leave facilities for other grades of Civil servants?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEThe scale of leave under which officers, formerly port clerks, became entitled to twenty-four days after five years' service disappeared as the result of the reorganisation. The Committee made no recommendation that an officer should retain any prospective right to increased leave, and I cannot admit such a claim. On the other hand, no officer suffered reduction in the amount of leave he was receiving.