§ MR. CLELAND (Glasgow, Bridgeton)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state in what Government Departments and in what numbers second division clerks are employed; whether the prospects held out to the clerks who join the various offices are substantially equal; and whether any periodic inquiry is made for the purpose of ensuring that the various offices offer somewhat equal prospects to ability and meritorious service.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The information asked for can be collected from the annual Estimates, but my hon. friend does not think that the result of collecting it would be worth the labour involved. It would be impossible to find a common measure of the prospects in a multitude of departments differing so widely in numbers and conditions. The Answer to the last Question is in the negative.