Sir GILBERT PARKERasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he would take steps to enable those of the senior abstractors who were engaged on work of a very difficult kind created in connection with the rejection of the Finance Bill in December last, and for which services the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have expressed their warm appreciation in a general order, to obtain the special increment of £10?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe work of the senior abstractors in the Statistical Office 2721W of the Customs and Excise Department was not of a difficult kind. The general order in question which was issued by the Board of Customs and Excise, was not addressed to any particular section of the Department, but to the officers and clerks as a whole, and no particular section was or can be singled out for preferential treatment.