§ Sir S. HOAREasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that, as a consequence of the reorganisation of the work of the Public Trustee Office, lower clerical men as well as women are redundant in their own sections, but that only the women are being transferred from the Department, work in other sections being found for the lower clerical men; and whether the principles of the Lytton Committee are being loyally carried out in this and other respects?
Mr. YOUNGNo permanent male officers were redundant to the Public Trustee's Department as a whole, nor was any permanent female clerk declared redundant until all the temporary women clerks had either been discharged or given notice of discharge. I am not aware of any reason for supposing that the principles of the Lytton Report are not being carried out in this Department.
§ Sir S. HOAREasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether any redundant second division clerks, have been asked to complete a transfer form similar to that which the redundant lower clerical women at the Public Trustee Office are being required to sign?
Mr. YOUNGThe answer is in the negative. The form which was intended for applications for voluntary transfer is442W not appropriate to the case of transfer of redundant officers, and its use in connection with the transfers from the Public Trustee's Office was due to a misunderstanding.