117. GRUNDYasked the Post-master-General whether he is prepared to apply the Report of the Committee on Women in Industry to the manipulative classes in the Post Office, seeing that the Sub-committee of the National Whitley Council which is investigating the organisation of the Civil Service is confining its attention to the clerical classes; and 668 whether, in view of the grave discontent which exists among the women in the Post Office service, he will have careful inquiry made with a view to a satisfactory reply being given?
§ The ASSISTANT - POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Pease)A similar question was put to me on the 4th December by the hon. Member for Bolton, and I can add nothing to the reply then given—that the matter is one affecting the Civil Service as a whole, and that, as regards the Post Office, no separate action could be taken.