§ Sir B. FALLEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that certain P-class clerks, serving at the Admiralty outports, who were selected in 1926 for permanent employment in the Civil Service, are paid a lower rate of pay than the temporary or hired messenger employed in the same Department; and whether he will take steps to remedy this anomaly?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMThe comparison made by my hon. Friend is not quite correct. The scale of pay for hired messengers in Admiralty outports is 36s. to 40s., plus 14s. industrial bonus. That for temporary and P-class clerks, Grade III, employed in the provinces is 49s. 11d. to 59s. 11d. inclusive. The former scale of pay, moreover, covers the full industrial working hours of the Yard (47 hours) plus one hour of extra attendance daily if required, whereas the latter, which is common to all Government Department, is for a 44-hour week.