§ Mr. GUYasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will state the number of third grade departmental clerks in his Department on the maximum of their scale, i.e., £252 14s. or £277 16s. per annum and the average length of time such officers have already served on their maximum?
Lord STANLEYNo statistics of the kind required by my hon. Friend are available and to prepare them would involve time and labour incommensurate 933W with the value of the information. It can, however, be stated that a large number of Third Grade Departmental Clerks in the Admiralty Service are in receipt of the maximum pay of the scale and that some of them have been on the maximum for a considerable period.