§ Sir R. Taskerasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will set out in a table of figures indicating the precise basis upon which peacetime leave is granted to the various grades of employee in the Civil Service; showing separately the number of employees eligible for each period of leave; and stating the numbers of hours worked per week by employees in each grade.
§ Mr. AsshetonThere are in the Civil Service between 400 and 500 distinct grades of non-industrial employees, including over 100 grades special to the Post Office; and to collect in respect of all of these grades the information asked for in the Question would involve an expenditure of time and labour which would not be justified in war-time conditions.
I take it, however, that my hon. Friend has in mind chiefly the general classes (the so-called Treasury classes) which are employed on scales of pay common to the Service as a whole. The accompanying table sets out, for the main grades in these classes, the pre-war entitlement of annual leave, together with the hours which, in peace-time, each grade is normally required to work without payment for overtime. In practice London staff in junior grades worked for rather shorter hours than those shown, except in time of pressure. Provincial staff worked for the hours shown—or longer in times of pressure. No payment is made for overtime to senior grades (including all administrative, legal and higher executive grades) and many of them normally worked much longer hours than are shown. The numbers given for each grade are those employed at 1st April, 1939, but as the grouping for census purposes does not in all cases coincide with the grouping for leave entitlement, these figures must he regarded as approximate.
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Permanent—Treasury Classes Grade. Peace-time Entitlement Days' A/L. Number 1.4.39. Normal (peace-time) Hours per week. Administrative Group 36 rising to 48 after 10 years of service in a grade carrying 36 days. 2,147 London 42: Provinces 44 Legal Staffs Group Executive Group down to (and including) Higher Executive Officers and Staff Officers. 36 rising to 48 after 15 years in a grade carrying 36 days 4,127 London 42: Provinces 44 Executive Officers 36 2,834 London 42: Provinces 44 Clerks higher grade: Chief Superintendents of Typists. 36 3,667 London 42: Provinces 44 Clerical Officers 24 28,835 London 42: Provinces 44 Superintendents of Typists. Clerical Assistants Grade I 18 during first 5 years of service, 21 thereafter. 12,799 London 42: Provinces 44 Clerical Assistants Grade II 18 131 London 42: Provinces 44 Shorthand Typists 21 rising to 24 after 5 years in the grade. 5,554 London 42: Provinces 44 Clerk Shorthand Typists Typists 18 rising to 21 after 5 years in the grade. 6,133 London 42: Provinces 44 Clerk Typists S Class Clerks 21 2,669 London 42: Provinces 44 Office Keepers 24 38 48 Established Record Keepers. 14 rising to 21 after 5 years established service. 217 London 42: Provinces 44 Established Messengers 14 rising to 18 after 5 years established service. 519 48 Temporary Staff Grade. Peace-time Entitlement Days' A/L Number 1.4.39. Normal (Peace-time) Hours per week. Temporary Clerks, Typists, etc. 18 years of age or over Not exceeding 18 5,477 44 Under 18 years Not exceeding 12 Temporary Messenger, etc. Not exceeding 12 3,733 48 Miscellaneous Grades— Women Cleaners Where attendance is not less than 18 hours a week 4,968 whole-time Conditioned to 30 with liability to work 42. 6 days rising to 12 days after 3 years. 3,847 part-time.