§ 65. Sir R. NEWMANasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why first-class women clerks doing supervisory work have been assimilated to the lower clerical grade, and if this is one of the duties laid down by the Reorganisation Report as proper to this grade, and whether any men doing supervisory work have been assimilated lower clerical?
Mr. YOUNGFirst-class women clerks have been assimilated, in accordance with the Report of the Reorganisation Committee of the Civil Service National Whitley Council, irrespective of the duties actually performed, and subject only to fitness, to the lower clerical class, pending determination of the number of posts which will be available in the training grade of the executive class and without prejudice to eventual appointment in appropriate cases to that grade. The duties laid down for the lower clerical class in the Report of the Reorganisation Committee include a measure of supervisory work. The answer to the last part of the question is in the affirmative.