HC Deb 21 April 1920 vol 128 cc388-9
54. Major HILLS

asked the Lord Privy Seal when the Orders in Council regulating the admission of women to the Civil Service under the Sex Disqualification Removal Act will be laid upon the Table?

The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Baldwin)

As I informed the hon. Member on the 17th February, the question of the recruitment of women to the Civil Service was referred, with other questions, to the joint committee of the Civil Service National Whitley Council. That committee has now submitted a report on the main point of its reference, but a number of subsidiary questions remain to be discussed, and it is not yet possible to draft Orders in Council embodying the changes to be made.

Major HILLS

Can any date be given for the draft Orders?

Mr. BALDWIN

I am afraid I cannot give a date yet; there is a good deal of detail to be arranged.

Lord ROBERT CECIL

Are there any women representatives on the National Whitley Council?

Mr. BALDWIN

My impression is that there are.

Lord R. CECIL

Very few!