§ Commander BELLAIRSasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he can state in tabular form for 1924-25 the total personnel for the Air Force, the Army, and the Navy, and the cost of the recruiting service for the same; the salaries and allowances for the Departments of the Chief of the Staff, and of the whole administrative Department in each case; the cost of the staffs for Works Services in each case; and the non-effective Vote of retired pay, pensions, etc., which has to be administered by each of the three Departments
Mr. GUINNESSThe figures are as fellow
them under the scale of pay laid down by agreement between the Treasury and the Workers' Union for the messenger grade and whether he will cause inquiries to be made into this matter with a view to al; the men receiving the full incremental value of their past service as messengers in His Majesty's Land Registry?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERALAll unestablished messengers employed at the Land Registry have received the increase due to them under the scale of pay laid down -by the agreement dated 23rd December, 1924, between the Treasury and the Workers' Union for the messenger grade. The agreement. embodied in A. 81 of the 20th September, 1920, which the hon. Member may have in mind, did not apply to the Land Registry. The scales set out in that agreement are, however, 47W more applicable to the Registry as part of the 1923 reorganisation scheme which was adopted after discussion and agreement with accredited representatives of the men concerned. No case is seen for modifying in the direction desired the agreement then reached