SIR HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if the Government will direct that weight in all Departments of the State is to be given in the appointment or promotion of any individual to efficient service in one of the auxiliary defensive forces.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURPromotion in a Civil Service Department must, of course, in the main depend on the service with which the official is entrusted. I imagine that general ability, and especially proof of general capacity in performing some such important function as that to which my hon. friend refers, will not be left out of account.