§ Mr. Parkerasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Government will improve the salaries paid to Government messengers (which start at 47s. 6d. a week and rise to 55s. 6d.), who are drawn from the ranks of ex-service men, so that those so retiring from the Services in future may have a better livelihood?
§ Lieut.-Colonel ColvilleIt is not proposed to modify the present scales of pay of messengers in Government Departments, which were settled in January, 1935, by agreement with the representative associations.