§ Mr. Carsonasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the weekly salary paid to the shorthand typists who type the replies to Members' letters to Ministers.
§ Mr. Glenvil HallThe age, qualifications and rank of officers engaged on this work vary widely. The extremes are the minimum rate for a newly recruited temporary copying typist, aged 16, at 43s. per week, and the maximum of a clerical officer acting as a shorthand-typist at 131s. 6d. per week