§ Sir W. de FRECEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in carrying out the recommendations contained in the Report of the Reorganisation Committee of the National Whitley Council, the same principle as regards staffing has been applied equally to all Government Departments and Sub-De- 1475W partments; and especially whether, with a view to securing equality of opportunity and the same prospects of advancement to civil servants generally, the proportion of higher executive posts to training grade executive posts and of higher clerical posts to lower clerical posts is substantially the same in all Departments?
Mr. YOUNGThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the second, higher posts are fixed according to the requirements of the work in each case, and not on any fixed proportion.