§ 77. Lieut.-Colonel POWNALLasked the Secretary of State for Air how many temporary officials there are in his Department above grade 1 clerk who were previously employed in other Departments from which their services were dispensed with on account of age, ill-health, or other causes; whether any of them are in receipt of pensions; and why these officials are retained whilst ex-service men are being discharged?
The SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Captain Guest)A similar question was put to me by the hon. and gallant Member for North Cumberland on the 21st February, but, as then stated, I am unable to identify the cases referred to without fuller particulars, and these have not yet been given.