§ SIR GEORGE BARTLEY (Islington, N.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether a person appointed to a 1205 Government Department, under Section 7 of the Order in Council of the 4th of June, 1870, with a special certificate of qualification to hold a situation for which professional qualifications are considered requisite, is eligible, after his introduction into the Department, for promotion to situations on the general staff; and whether, in the event of such promotion to a general staff appointment of an officer specially admitted to perform professional duties, the question of the adequacy of the special certificate under which such officer entered the Department should be submitted to the Treasury.
(Answered by Mr. Arthur Elliot.) Any person appointed to a new post in the Civil Service not in the ordinary course of promotion from that which he previously held requires a fresh Civil Service certificate of qualification for the new post. It is open to the Civil Service Commission, before giving the new certificate under Clause 7, to require the candidate to pass such tests as they think proper.