§ Captain THORPEasked the Postmaster-General, seeing that the Chan- 259W cellor of the Exchequer promised the House on 5th August last that the position of women should not be worsened during the next three years, and seeing that a Treasury Committee on the subject of a common seniority list is being set up, if he will state why women employed till recently in the War Loans Branch and the Warrant Inquiry Branch of the Savings Bank Department have been taken off the work, these branches being now staffed entirely by men?
§ Mr. KELLAWAYWomen were employed in the two branches referred to only as a temporary arrangement during and after the War. Their replacement by male staff is an essential part of the steps taken by the Post Office to extend the employment of ex-service men, and does not conflict with the undertaking referred to.