15. Mr. WARD LAW-MILNEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he will state, actually or approximately, the total number of officers of the provincial services who have been officially recognised as of non-Asiatic domicile?
§ Earl WINTERTONThe information required can be obtained only by reference to the Government of India, to whom a telegram of inquiry has been sent.
§ 16. Mr. WARDLAW-MILNEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he will state the conditions under which Europeans are recruited in India to the subordinate services; whether the question of domicile arises; whether they are engaged for permanent service or liable to dismissal at notice; and whether generally they are subject to conditions of leave, pay, pensions, or allowances in any way analogous to those under which the members of the All-India and provincial services hold their appointments?
§ Earl WINTERTONConditions of entry to the subordinate services in India are fixed by the Government of India and local Governments under whose control those services are, and I regret that information is not available as to the Regulations in force in different provinces, or as to the points referred to in the second and third parts of the question. As regards the last part of the question, the leave and pensions of the subordinate services are at present regulated as in the case of the All-India services by the Fundamental Rules and the Civil Service Regulations; but, subject again to the Fundamental Rules, the fixation of their pay and allowances is a matter for the local government concerned.
§ 17. Mr. WARDLAW-MILNEasked the Under-Secretary of State for India what decision, if any, has been come to as the result of the consultations between the Government of India and the provincial governments in regard to the consideration of applications from individual officers of the provincial services of non-Asiatic domicile for the extension to them of all or any of the privileges accorded in accordance with the All-India services in accordance with the recommendation of the Lee Commission?
§ Earl WINTERTONMy Noble Friend hopes to receive the recommendations of the Government of India on this subject at an early date. A decision on it will be expedited as much as possible, once those recommendations have been received.