§ Major WHELERasked the Minister of Health whether any Regulations have been issued at any time for the guidance of local authorities when dealing with reductions of the war bonuses on the salaries of the officials employed by the local authorities, or whether this is a matter on which each local authority must act for itself?
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Mr. CHAMBERLAINNo Regulations have been issued on this subject, but local authorities have been informed from time to time of the scale of bonus authorised for 3ivil servants, and of the alterations made in that scale, and where the sanction of the Minister is required to the salary paid to a local authority's officer, general sanction has been given to the payment to that officer of bonus within the Civil Service scale. It is for the local authority to decide in each case what bonus, if any, they shall pay.