§ Captain W. BENNasked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been drawn to complaints that a verbal 1067W agreement for the regrading, as from January, 1920, of examiners in the Department of the Accountant-General, London, and the accountant's office, Edinburgh, of the General Post Office, which was arrived at in January, 1922, has been cancelled by a national agreement of April, 1922; whether he is aware that this has resulted in a loss, not only of pay and increments, but also of pension, to the officers concerned; and whether he will take the necessary steps to get the verbal agreement of January, 1922, restored?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply given by one of my predecessors to a question asked by the hon. Member for Carlisle (Mr. Middleton) on the 13th December last. The position is clearly governed by the overriding general agreement of April, 1922, and there are no grounds on which the operation of that agreement could be waived in this particular case.