§ Major HILLSasked the Minister of Agriculture whether in view of the substantial acceptance by the Board of Education of the recommendations made by the recent Royal Commission on the Civil Service for the improvement of the position of women on the board's inspectorate, he is now prepared to endorse the corresponding recommendations made by the Commission to his Department by throwing open appointments on the Ministry's livestock, veterinary, and labour inspectorate, and as secretaries to agricultural wages committees, to free competition by men and women?
§ Mr. ELLIOTVacancies as secretaries to agricultural wages committees are now filled from among the clerical staff of the Ministry and are, therefore, open to both men and women. The general question of the appointment of women to specialist posts in Government Departments is being considered by a central committee in connection with the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, and I shall be happy to make a further review of the position so far as concerns the posts in question in due course.