§ MR CHARLES HOBHOUSE (Bristol, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will state what is the number of civilian clerks displaced, or who have retired, and whose places are now occupied by ex-officers and noncommissioned officers and privates.
§ MR. BRODRICKThe places of five higher division and staff clerks have been filled by retired officers and those of fifty-seven second division clerks, assistant clerks, and boy copyists by a similar number of pensioner clerks. In addition to this, forty-six pensioners have been employed in positions which would otherwise have necessitated the appointment of temporary civilian clerks to meet pressure of work.