§ Mr. MIDDLETONasked the Post master-General whether he is aware that the examiners in the Accountant-General's Department, General Post Office, London, and first-class clerks in the post office, Edinburgh, have been refused the full benefit of improved scales of pay which it had been arranged they should receive; and whether, in view of the dissatisfaction caused by the present situation, he is prepared to receive a deputation of the officers affected?
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Mr. CHAMBERLAINI assume that the hon. Member is referring to the claim of these officers that they should receive the improved scales of pay from the 1st January, 1920, instead of the date from which the general re-organisation schemes for their Departments took effect. The understanding that they would be given the benefit of the earlier date was replaced by the agreement signed by the National Whitley Council on the 8th April last. The question has already been fully discussed with the representatives of the officers concerned, and I do not think that any useful purpose would be served by my receiving a deputation on the subject.