§ Mr. FIELDasked the First Lord of the Treasury, with reference to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service that an immediate addition be made to the pay of the assistant clerks equivalent to one year's increment on the existing scale in consequence of the economic position of these officers, whether he is prepared to extend similar concessions to those assistant clerks who have been promoted to the second division for exceptional merit and ability; and, if not, whether he is aware that such meritorious clerks will, as a direct result of their promotion, continue to lose financially until the maximum of their present grade is reached, in some cases amounting to over twenty years, and that such a result is directly opposed to the finding of the Royal Commission cited in paragraph 22 of chapter 8, that no man should suffer 1358W financial loss on promotion from less to more responsible duties?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThe point will not be lost sight of in considering the recommendations of the Royal Commission.