§ 72. Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will explain why three ex-service temporary male clerks in the Customs and Excise Office, Plymouth, have received a month's notice of dismissal, seeing that these men by reason of their qualifications and service are within the category of the new P-class appointments, and the services of other temporary male clerks who are ineligible to compete for the P-class appointments are being kept on in the same Department?
§ Mr. McNEILLThe two temporary male clerks employed in the Customs and Excise Department at Plymouth, at present under notice of discharge, have, in common with other temporary male clerks in the same catogories in that Department, been given such notice in order to make way for ex-service men who were successful at the recent competitive examination. The principles which are being observed as to the order of discharge of temporary male clerks are those laid down in the Lytton Report.
§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAWill the right hon. Gentleman undertake to look into this matter again, seeing that an injustice has plainly been done to these men?
§ Mr. McNEILLNo, I do not think I can accede to that request.