§ 70. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary to the Treasury what steps are being taken by the Civil Service Commissioners to carry out the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service that women should be admitted to the higher grades of civil servants?
§ Mr. ACLANDI can assure my hon. Friend that heads of departments in the Civil Service are alive to the desirability of employing women to take the place of men who wish to serve their country in the field whenever this can be done without detriment to the public service. But, as my hon. Friend will see from Paragraph 27 of Chapter X. of the Report of the Royal Commissioners, their recommendations—which are not quite correctly described in his question—would entail a systematic inquiry and subsequent action which could hardly be undertaken at the present time. The Civil Service Commissioners are not directly concerned in the matter.