§ 75. Mr. SAKLATVALAasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the pledge given in 604 1925, and renewed last year, to temporary women typists that they should be immune from substitution by juniors from establishment examinations expiring in December this year, it is his intention to renew the pledge for a further period?
Mr. SAMUELI assume that the hon. Member intends to refer to the pledge given to temporary women clerks. If so, I would refer him to the answer I gave on Monday last on this subject to the hon. Member for the Bow and Bromley Division (Mr. Lansbury), a copy of which I am sending him.
§ Mr. SAKLATVALACould not the Financial Secretary put them in a similar class to the typists, because they are all doing the same clerical work, although styled differently?
Mr. SAMUELIf the hon. Member means typists and not clerks, there is no pledge of the kind to which he refers in 1925 or 1927 to typists.
§ Mr. SAKLATVALAI apologise for the technical error. May I again request the Parliamentary Secretary not to make these hair-splitting differences when dealing with clerks and typists who are covered by one pledge?