§ Mr. MOSLEYasked the Minister of Labour whether the Civil Service National Whitley Council Reorganisation Committee has recommended that candidates should not be more than 35 years of age at the date of the projected 904W examination for permanent Civil Service employment; and whether this Regulation will be waived in favour of ex-Service men who served in the recent War and have since found employment in the Civil Service, despite the fact that they exceed the age limit now laid down by the Committee?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The proposed age limit represents a considerable extension of the limit which will normally be imposed in future. Any further extension would not be in the interests either of the efficiency of the public service or of the ex-service men as a whole, since the number of vacancies being very small in comparison with the number of ex-service candidates, the acceptance of candidates above the proposed age limit would necessarily involve the rejection of candidates within the limit.