§ Brigadier-General CHARTERISasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will state the number, by grades, and the cost of the establishment employed during the years 1923–24, 1924–25, and at present at the Department of Overseas Trade, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Mines, the Ministry of Pensions, the Enemy Debt Department, the Land Valuation Department, and the Board of Agriculture (Scotland)?
§ Mr. McNEILLMy hon. and gallant Friend will find full information on the
46Wemployed at the Hilsea Ordnance Depot, with an average of 18 years' service, are in receipt of a basic rate of pay not exceeding 36s, per week; and if he proposes to bring these men on the scale recommended in February, 1920, by the National Whitley Council?
§ Captain KINGThe rate of 36s. basic, which with bonus equals 62s. 7d., is the maximum rate of these clerks on the present scale. A new scheme of organisation, with gradings and pay for established posts which are based on the Re-organisation Committee Report of 1920, with modifications agreed to by the staff side of the War Department Whitley Council, has been approved for application to War Department out stations. Existing staff will be assimilated to appropriate grades as soon as the complement of each grade has been fixed.