§ Major LLEWELLINasked the Postmaster-General the number of hours of overtime worked by male established clerical officers in the London engineering district of his Department for the last financial year, and the cost of same; and whether any overtime is being performed in that department by such officers at the present time?
§ Mr. ATTLEEThe establishment in question comprises about 330 male established clerks, and during the last financial year the amount of overtime worked was about 32,050 hours at a cost of £4,890. The chief cause of the overtime was that the establishment was under constant revision, and that some delay in filling vacancies inevitably resulted. A certain amount of overtime is still necessary for similar reasons.