§ 60. Miss LAWRENCEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will give an assurance that it is not intended to introduce into the Civil Service a large number of girls from outside the service by means of the forthcoming examinations for the writing assistant and clerical classes (women), and that there will be no repetition of the position arising during 376 1924 and 1925, when young girls were brought in on a wholesale scale and adult women with many years' service were dismissed?
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)I would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Mansbury) on the 28th February.