§ Mr. JOWETTasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether all clerks to the surveyors of taxes up to twenty-eight years of age have been released for military ser- 1750W vice; whether all surveyors and assistant surveyors of taxes under twenty-eight years of age who have been drafted into the Taxes Department during the past three years have been released for military service; and, if all surveyors and assistant surveyors of taxes under twenty-eight years of age who entered the Taxes Department during the last three years have not been released for military service, whether he will state the number of that age period who have entered during the last three years and the number released for military service?
§ Mr. BALDWINPermission to join His Majesty's Forces has been granted by the Board of Inland Revenue within Grades 1 and 2 to clerks in surveyors' offices up to the age of twenty-eight, to a somewhat parallel class of clerks at headquarters up to the age of thirty-five, and to clerks at headquarters belonging to a superior grade up to the age of thirty-one. For these various grades of clerks it has proved possible to employ substitutes under the supervision of the trained staff remaining, although at some cost of efficiency. With regard to surveyors of taxes for whom no substitutes are available with the necessary qualifications, I may refer my hon. Friend to answers given by me on the 4th March and 15th April last to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Reading. I am sending copies of these answers to my hon. Friend.