§ 84. Mr. MACQUISTENasked the Minister of Labour whether, seeing that the Civil Service appointments reserved for demobilised soldiers under the reconstruction scheme are open only to those soldiers who have had continuous school education to the age of seventeen and in some cases nineteen, notwithstanding that candidates sit for a qualifying examination which tests their fitness, and that the above reservation excludes all who have not been at fee-paying or private schools, he will abolish a restriction which operates in favour of a class, and rely solely 330 on the fitness and knowledge of the candidates irrespective of the number of years it may have taken them to acquire same?
§ Mr. S. BALDWIN (Joint Financial Secretary to the Treasury)I beg to refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. and gallant Member for Islington, N., on the 11th March.