§ MR. DAVID THOMASI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the unanimous recommendation of the Loyal Commission on Civil Establishments, made in paragraph 52 of the Report presented in 1888, in respect of all new appointments to the upper division of the Civil Service, has been, or shortly will be, adopted; and, if not, will he state the grounds upon which any distinctions are drawn between the higher officials of the various departments having regard to the fact that they are all recruited by the same examination and for the same class of work.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINI must ask the hon. Member to refer to Parliamentary Paper 515 of the session of 1894, where he will find a full account of the action taken upon the Report of the Royal Commission and of the reasons for it. No change is contemplated at the present time.