§ MR. E. R. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S. W.)On behalf of the hon. Member for West Newington, Captain Norton, I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether no promotions from the Second to the First Division of the Civil Service have been made in the following Departments: Treasury, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Home Office, War Office, Post Office, Customs, Exchequer and Audit Department, Education Department, Charity Commission, and Civil Service Commission; and, if so, whether immediate steps will be taken, to apply the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Civil Establishments to these Departments as well as to others in which no such promotions have been made?
§ * MR. HANBURYI am not aware that any promotions have been made in the Departments specified to posts in the First Division, which are ordinarily filled by Class I. competitions. Whenever the head of a department, in the First Division of which a vacancy existed, has reported that a Second Division clerk had shown exceptional capacity and such qualifications as fitted him for the vacant appointment, the Treasury has always assented to such clerk's promotion.