To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether, seeing that the private secretary to the Comptroller and consumed on the premises, in that country.

The Board of Inland Revenue have furnished me with the statistics given below in reply to my hon. friend's Question:— Auditor-General until lately received £150 special allowance, that such special allowance is not pensionable, that it has now been reduced to £100 and the other £50 merged for pensionable purposes in the ordinary salary of the holder of the position, and that this gentleman only serves seven hours per day as formerly, he will explain whether an evasion of the Superannuation Acts has taken place in this case; and, if so, what steps he proposes to take.

I have nothing to add to my previous Answers on this subject except, that the grant of a pensionable allowance for the additional duties which this officer now performs involves no evasion of the Superannuation Acts.