§ Mr. Harveyasked the Minister of Health why no cost-of-living bonus has been granted to registrars of births and deaths: whether any application for such a bonus has been made to the Registrar-General: and whether his decision as to any such application is final or subject to review by the Treasury?
§ Miss HorsbrughThe Registrar-General is not the paymaster of registrars of births and deaths who, if salaried, receive from the local authority a salary determined by an approved statutory scheme. So far as the Registrar-General is aware, the local authorities concerned have usually applied to salaried registrars any bonus awarded by them to their own officers. Non-salaried registrars derive their remuneration from various statutory fees received from the public, the local authority and the Exchequer for specific items of their services. The usual war bonus arrangements are not, therefore, applicable to their case; but they have at all times the right of opting for the salaried basis.