§ Major PRESCOTTasked the Minister of Health whether he will give the amount of the hotel expenses allowed to temporary officials in the Department of the Director-General of Housing; and the grounds for making a smaller allowance to temporary officials, as against the permanent officials of the Ministry?
§ Dr. ADDISONThe amount of the subsistence expenses allowed to temporary officials in the Department of the Director-General of Housing is as follows:
Where the salary is not less than £600 a year, £1 a night.
Where the salary is less than £600 a year, 15s. a night.
A temporary addition of 25 per cent. has been recently made to the above subsistence rates in the case of permanent officials. The extension of a similar increase to the temporary staff is now under consideration.