§ 42. Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether a candidate who has passed an open competitive examination for His Majesty's dockyard held by the Civil Service Commissioners and who has served an apprenticeship in His Majesty's dockyard, is entitled to take advantage of Clause 1 (ii) of the regulations respecting open competitive examinations for situations as officer of customs and excise (male), which provides that candidates who have served in any established civil situation to which they were admitted with the certificate of the Civil Service Commissioners may deduct from their actual age any time not exceeding two years which they may have spent in such service?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel)An apprenticeship in His Majesty's Dockyard is not an established civil situation. Accordingly a candidate for admission to an open competition for the situation of officer of Customs and Excise is not entitled by the regulation cited to deduct from his actual age time spent in such apprenticeship.
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAWill the hon Gentleman look into this matter in order to give justice to these employés of the State who are just as well qualified as other servants?
§ Mr. SAMUELYes, I will look into the matter, but I do not agree with the implication contained in the supplementary question that they are unjustly treated.