asked the Minister for Finance whether it is a fact that according to the Cost of Living Report of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce for Mid-June, 1922, the Index Cost of Living figure in Mid-March, 1922, was 91.4, and whether it was 85 on the 1st September, 1923; if so, will he now say why the Civil Service bonus has been cut 4/26 during that period, while according to those figures the cut for the period should only amount to 1/26.
WRITTEN ANSWERS. - CUT IN CIVIL SERVICE BONUS.
I must refer the Deputy to the reply given to his question of the 4th ult., in which I explained that Civil Service bonus is paid by reference to the average cost of living figure over a period of six months.