HC Deb 28 February 1893 vol 9 cc556-7
SIR FREDERICK DIXON-HARTLAND (Middlesex, Uxbridge)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will either state or give a Return of the number of Second Division Clerks of the Civil Service promoted to the 1st Division or to higher posts during the last 10 years, stating the promotions to each office respectively; the total number of appointments made during the same period to the 1st Division; and the number of recommendations for promotion of Second Division Clerks received during the same period from the proper departments and not acted on?

THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) Oldham

I am prepared to give the information asked for in the first two paragraphs for the period during which the present system of Civil Service organisation has been in force—namely, from September 10, 1888, the date of the second Report of the Royal Commission on Civil Establishments. The number of appointments of Second Division Clerks to the Upper Division and to higher posts since that date has been as follows, namely: — Admiralty, 17; Board of Trade, 3; Bankruptcy Department, 6; Patent Office, 1; Chief Secretary's Office (Ireland) 4; Customs, 2; Fishery Board for Scotland, 1; Inland Revenue, 50; Irish Land Commission, 2; Local Government Board (England), 5; Local Government Board (Ireland), 1; Public Works Office (Ireland), 7; Science and Art Department, 1; Secretary for Scotland's Office, 1; Valuation Office, Dublin, 6; War Office, 1; Woods and Forests Office, 1;—total, 109. I assume that the object of the second paragraph is to ascertain the number of appointments from outside the service by the scheme of open competition known as Class I., and excluding those examinations in which technical knowledge is re- quired. The number of appointments so made since September 10, 1888, is 18. Only one recommendation for promotion from the Second Division to the Upper Division under the Orders in Council has been refused, and that only pending a revision of the establishment of the Department. I cannot find that more than five applications from departments for the creation of staff posts of the Second Division have not been acted on, the reason being that the Treasury have not been satisfied that a case for the creation of the posts had been made out.