§ Mr. WILKIEasked the Secretary to the Treasury the number of days preventive men in the Customs Department were acting in a superior capacity during the year ending 31st March last; the highest number of days thus acting by a preventive man; and the name of the port?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe particulars asked for by my hon. Friend are not available.
§ Mr. WILKIEasked the Secretary to the Treasury the number of officers of the Customs Department who received commuted overtime allowances consequent upon the amalgamation of that Department with the Excise, the amount of such allowance, the average overtime per officer for the year ending 31st March, 1909, and the average overtime per officer for those officers receiving such allowance for the year ending 31st March last?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe allowances in question were paid from 1st December, 1912, at which date 170 officers, formerly Customs officers, received allowances of £13 per annum and 1,128 of £10 per annum. The numbers of these officers have since been reduced by retirements and other causes, and on 31st ultimo they stood at 141 and 1,091 respectively. The figures asked for as to average overtime earnings are not available, nor would they be properly comparable, inasmuch as (1) the1356W amount of overtime attendance (upon which the pay depends) would be different for 1908–9 and 1913–14, and (2) a considerable number of the officers who receive allowances have been transferred from work which gave them opportunities of earning overtime pay to work which gives them no such opportunities, and other officers without allowances have taken their places on the former work.