§ MR. TUITEI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, having regard to the fact that the Order, in Council of 21st March, 1890, was devised to secure uniform conditions of service for all Second Division Clerks, the head of a Department has power to issue regulations setting aside any of the provisions of that Order?
§ MR. JACKSONNo, Sir; the head of a Department has no power, as far as I am aware, to vary any of the provisions of the Order in Council of the 21st March, 1890, relating to the Second Division.
§ MR. TUITEI beg to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether it is intended that all those Civil Service writers now in the Service, who were recommended by the heads of their Departments for promotion to the Second Division, and not promoted, will form the nucleus of the new class of clerks for which an open competitive examination is to be held on the 17th March?
§ MR. JACKSONThe question of the hon. Member appears to have been suggested by a notice for a competitive examination for the situation of abstract- 11 tor, which was given in the London Gazette of the 30th January. As the hon. Member will have seen, that notice was withdrawn by an advertisement in the Gazette of the 3rd instant.