§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state the reason why clerks to surveyors of taxes who were placed on the Civil Service establishment in 1908 are not entitled to count their previous service as clerks to surveyors of taxes towards pension or superannuation; whether, although technically in the employment of the surveyors, they were to all intents and purposes in the service of the State and paid for out of public funds; and will lie state why the precedents created in the cases of the women typists and Customs boatmen should not be followed?
§ Mr. ILLINGWORTHI have nothing to add to the reply of my right hon.558W Friend, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, to the Noble Lord, the Member for the Hornsey division of Middlesex, on 27th February.
§ Mr. TOUCHEasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the difficulty in distinguishing between the ditties discharged by the clerks to the surveyor of taxes who are on the establishment of the Civil Service and the clerks to the surveyors of taxes who are not On the establishment, he will consider the desirability of placing on the Civil Service establishment all unestablished clerks to surveyors of taxes of more than two years' service; and will he, in coining to a decision oh the matter, give, consideration to the resolution passed at the annual meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in London on 15th and 17th March, 1910, to the effect that the present system of staffing the offices of surveyors of taxes with clerks who are for the most part employed on agreement with the Board of Inland Revenue terminable on one week's notice should be at once clone away with, and that the duties of these, clerks should be discharged by responsible civil servants?
§ Mr. ILLINGWORTHI beg to refer to the replies of my right hon. Friend, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, on 27th February.