§ Mr. GATESasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the grounds on which the Government are unable to grant improved conditions of employment and scales of pay to P-class clerks as advanced to the Controller of Establishments of His Majesty's Treasury by the Association of Ex-Service Civil Servants on 9th January last; and whether His 1198W Majesty's Government have any alternative proposals for the betterment of the present pay and conditions of these ex-service men?
Mr. SAMUEL:I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given yesterday by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the hon. Member for South Battersea (Mr. W. Bennett), a copy of which I am sending him.