§ SIR WILLIAM WEDDERBURN (Banffshire)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether there are any appointments in the Indian Educational Service which are specially reserved by the new scheme for persons appointed in this country, and which persons appointed in India are precluded from holding; will the Secretary of State give a list of these appointments; and was there any rule or regulation precluding persons appointed in India from holding these appointments previous to the adoption of the new scheme in 1896?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAAs I stated on the 3rd of this month, the effect of the new scheme upon the Indian Educational Service has been to transfer to the Provincial Service certain high appointments hitherto filled by nomination in this country, thus practically reserving them for natives of India. As regards the appointments reserved for persons selected in this country (who, as I explained, may be natives of India), I regret that I cannot give a complete list; but, subject to the deductions of those posts which have been transferred to the Provincial Service, they remain practically as they were before the introduction of the new scheme.
§ SIR W. WEDDERBURNIs the number of these appointments so large as to make it inconvenient to furnish a list of them?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAThat is not the reason.