§ Mr. STEPHEN COLLINSasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the higher salaries prescribed by the Order in Council of 21st December, 1907, were afforded to Second Division clerks on the ground that their salaries under the Order in Council of 21st March, 1890, were inadequate during the earlier years of service; and, if so, will he explain why the Second Division clerks in the Estate Duty Office are required to revert, on promotion to the First Division, to the lower scale of salaries, seeing that it is usual for a clerk upon promotion to be given the prospect of a higher maximum salary as well as to receive an immediate increase of pay?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe hon. Member will find all the information he requires in my replies to the hon. Member for St. Patrick's Division of Dublin on 13th July, 1908, and to the hon. Member for Clapham on 10th November last.