HC Deb 11 November 1908 vol 196 c253
MR. HART-DAVIES (Hackney, N.)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Civil Service Supply Association, of Queen Victoria Street, is a business organised an conducted by State-paid Civil servants; and whether this association is permitted to canvass and solicit orders from Government employees during office hours.

(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) The association is, I understand, managed by a committee about half of whom are Civil servants and the rest retired Civil servants. The Answer to the latter part of the Question is in the negative; but, I believe, objection is not in practice raised to a servant of the association calling to take any orders that members of Government departments may have to give him.