Viscountess ASTORasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of persons employed in Turkey by the Inter-Allied Commission to assess losses suffered by British subjects; the total number of persons employed by the British section of the Commission; the yearly amount spent by the Commission on their salaries, on rent, and other expenses since the Commission was set up in August, 1924; the number of British claims decided by the Commission up to 30th June, 1927; and of that number how many have been paid in full and how many have received advances, respectively?
§ Mr. McNEILLI am informed that the number of persons employed in Turkey by the Inter-Allied Commission 1755W to assess losses suffered by British subjects is 12; the total number of persons employed by the British section is 25. The total expenditure of the Commission, which has to deal with French, Italian and Japanese claims as well as British claims, since August, 1924, is approximately £90,000. The number of British claims at present finally decided by the Commission up to 30th June, 1927, is 2,468. Of this number 948 claims have been rejected and 1,520 approved to a total amount of over £1,000,000. Many other claims are in an advanced stage of consideration. A dividend of 40 per cent. of the amount assessed is now in course of payment. No claims have been paid in full, pending the completion of the assessment of all the claims presented to the Commission.
Viscountess ASTORasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has received particulars of a claim submitted to the Inter-Allied Commission on War Claims against Turkey, in which an application for £766 compensation was made; whether the Commission assessed the damages of the claimant at £438 and, if so, the reason for the reduction, and, as the only amount paid to the claimant up to date is £175, whether there is any action he can take to expedite the payment of the full amount of compensation?
— Shorthand Typists. Copying Typists. Grade 1. Grade 2. Grade 1. Grade 2. District Tax Offices … … 166 442 — — Collectors of taxes, Scotland … … — — — — Headquarters offices … … — — 39 18 The average length of service of the shorthand-typists is four years, and of the copying-typists 4¾ years. Five Grade 1 and six Grade 2 copying-typists, who are not shown above, have been engaged in district offices for a limited period for special work in copying particulars from Income Tax (Schedule A) assessments which are required by local authorities.