§ 77. Mr. William Brownasked the Secretary of State for War the number of officers classified A, from a health point of view, and under 40 years of age, engaged in War Office establishments on clerical work which could be done by older men or by women?
§ The Secretary of State for War (Sir James Grigg)This information is not available, and the time and labour needed to collect it would not in my opinion be justified.
§ Mr. BrownIs not my right hon. Friend aware that these cases run into many thousands? If I send him specimen examples of this kind of thing, will he be good enough to look into them? It would make a valuable contribution to the manpower problem if he would.
§ Sir J. GriggI do not think there are many thousands, because the whole staff is not many thousands.