§ Mr. DOUGLAS HALLasked the President of the Board of Education what was the total number of persons, not at the time of appointment in permanent Government employment, who had been appointed since January, 1906, to positions in his Department with salaries exceeding £100 a year, and who did not, previously to their appointment pass an examination by the Civil Service Commissioners; and what was the total value of their salaries?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANEight men and one woman have been appointed to newly-established posts at initial salaries amounting to £5,750. In addition to these, eleven men and eight women have been appointed to posts newly created, by the conversion in each case of one or more existing posts of generally equivalent value, at salaries amounting to £6,110. There have also been forty-seven appointments to vacancies in the existing staff of the Board arising in the ordinary course through death or retirement.