§ Mr. ROBERT PEARCEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the Board of Inland Revenue have adopted the system of summer working hours from May to September from nine to four o'clock instead of ten to five; and whether he will issue instructions to surveyors of taxes in Ireland, and elsewhere, informing them that their clerks may adopt this system where they have not already done so?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI understand that the system referred to has been partially adopted by the Board of Inland Revenue. I do not think it advisable that general instructions on the lines suggested should be issued to surveyors of taxes, but applications from particular districts for the adoption of the system would be considered by the Board of Inland Revenue.