HC Deb 17 April 1913 vol 51 cc2134-7W
Mr. POINTER

asked the Secretary to the Treasury the number of adults serving in a civil capacity in Somerset House; the grades and numbers of persons so employed who receive less than 30s. per week or £78 per annum; and the number whose normal working day exceeds eight hours?

Mr. ROBERTSON

The number of persons employed in a civil capacity in the Inland Revenue Department, excluding boy clerks, boy stampers, and boy messengers, is 8,223, but this figure includes a number of officers who are not adults. The total number of persons who are at present in receipt of less than 30s. a week or £78 per annum is, as shown below, 3,065, but a large number of these officers will in due course proceed to a maximum salary exceeding 30s. a week or £78 a year. The official working hours do not exceed eight a day, except in the case of twenty-seven porters, whose hours are nine and a half a day. Grades and numbers of persons employed in Inland Revenue Department who are in receipt of less than 30s. per week or £78 per annum:—

Second Division Clerks 88*
Assistant Clerks 245*
Female Typists 35
Paper Keepers and Assistant Paper Keepers 18*
Clerks to Surveyors of Taxes 355*
Lady Assistants (Controller of Stamps and Stores Branch) 32*
Women Tellers, etc. (Stamping Department) 73
Warehousemen 34*
Packers and Porters 8*
Female Sewers 13
Stampers 52*
Temporary Valuation Assistants 280§
" Draughtsmen 41§
" Clerks (Valuation Office) 1,579§
Messengers 9*
Pensioner Messengers 13
Porters 40
Attendants (Police) 34
Charwomen 111**
Process Servers 2*
Door Porters 3
3,065
* On scales of salary rising beyond 30s. per week, or £78 per annum.
§ Officers in these classes are at various personal rates of salaries.
** Part-time employé.

Mr. POINTER

asked the Secretary to the Treasury the number of adults serving in a civil capacity in the National Health Insurance offices, London; the grades and numbers of persons so employed who receive less than 30s. per week or £78 per annum; and the number whose normal working day exceeds eight hours?

Mr. ROBERTSON

Excluding the outdoor staff (the majority of whom work out of London) and the audit staff (who are servants, not of the Commissioners, but of the Treasury), the following adult persons are employed by the National Health Insurance Commission (England) and the National Health Insurance Joint Committee: I. Persons in receipt of 30s. per week or £78 per annum or more, 394. II. Persons in receipt of less than 30s. per week or £78 per annum (exclusive of any overtime payment), 265, graded as follows:—

MEN.—Second division clerks (£70—£300 per annum), 23; assistant clerks (£45—£150 per annum), 54; permanent messengers, second class (£70—£105 per annum), 2; permanent messengers, third class, 3; temporary messengers, 38; porters, 10; hall porters, 3; coal porters, 1; total, 134.

WOMEN.—Typists (20s.—31s. per week), 23; temporary women clerks, 18; card tellers, permanent (14s. to 30s. per week), 29; card tellers, temporary, 7; charwomen and superintendents, 54; total, 131.

Three of the above have a normal working day of more than eight hours. In addition to the above, 153 temporary clerks are employed who are paid by the hour, all of whom receive an average wage of not less than 30s. per week. Three receive a lower wage than this on the basis of an eight-hour day.

Mr. CHARLES DUNCAN

asked the President of the Board of Education the average salary per man, the average number of days vacation per man, and the average number of days sick leave per man for each of the following grades engaged under the Board: Senior examiners, junior examiners, staff clerks, second division clerks, and assistant clerks (new class) for the year 1912?

Mr. PEASE

The following Return shows the average salary, vacation, and sick leave for various grades in the service of the Board of Education during the year 1912:—

RANK. * Average Salary (including Allowances) per man. Average Vacation (excluding public holidays) per man. Average Sick Leave per man.
£ s. d.
Senior Examiner 747 3 8 46.6 5.3
Junior Examiner 378 4 3 37.8 5.7
Staff Clerk 451 15 7 39.8 11
Minor Staff Clerk† 305 2 4 27.6 5
Second Division Clerk 139 11 9 19 7.8
Assistant Clerk. 95 16 10 17 6.5
* The average salary has been calculated in each case for the financial year ending 31st March, 1918.
† The grade of Minor Staff Clerk was not mentioned in the hon. Member's question, but I have inserted it for the sake of completeness.