§ Lieut. - Colonel POWNALLasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state how many non-service men and how many women are employed in the National Savings Department in a temporary capacity; and what steps he is taking to secure that the posts held by such personnel shall be filled by ex-service men who have been discharged from Government Departments and are now awaiting re-allocation?
Mr. YOUNGTwo non-service men and 98 women are at present employed in a temporary capacity in the National Savings Committee. Arrangements have already been made to substitute by ex-service men the two non-service men at an early date; the women, with the exception of 28, who will shortly be discharged owing to reductions in staff, are employed upon work specially appropriate to women.