Captain CRAIGasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the method of promotion to the supervising grade indicated in paragraph 162 of the Amalgamation Committee's Report is being kept in view; will steps be taken to ensure that not only are forty-two upper section clerks promoted within six years, but that their position on the supervising grade relative to the other grades is determined in accordance with the Committee's intention as ex- 347W pressed in paragraph 162; and, in view of the injury which would have been done to the senior clerks if they had been placed junior on the supervising grade to all the officers who have been promoted from the other classes, will he see that the hastening of promotion which has already taken place in those classes is not permitted to prejudice the clerks' right to concurrent promotions and that the spirit of paragraph 162 is rigidly observed?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI have nothing to add to my reply to the hon. Member's question of the 30th ultimo on this subject.