§ Sir R. LYNNasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the units-of-work figures at Belfast exceed 3,000: what unit value is given for the following details of work: returned letter branch, survey of 17 head offices, office of exchange for foreign and colonial mails, Customs examination of parcels from United States of America, Canada, and Irish Free State, accounting work, distribution of stores, statistical return of correspondence posted by and delivered to the Government of Northern Ireland, new work which has recently been added to Belfast and which is apparently not included in the figures recently quoted by him; whether he is aware that all these classes of work are. not being performed at Leeds, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Bristol, with which Belfast is being compared; and will he now consider the question of allowing credit for 1568W all work performed at Belfast and grant the status warranted by its position as a capital city?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONNo special unit credit is allowed for the items of work referred to. I am aware that certain of these items of work are not performed at Leeds, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Bristol, but the aggregate amount of work at each of the latter offices is considerably greater than at Belfast, and there are no adequate grounds for granting a higher classifiestion to the supervising staff at Belfast.