HC Deb 01 April 1925 vol 182 c1337W
Major GLYN

asked the Secretary of State for War if he will consider whether an ex-warrant officer, 1st class, with 27 years' service with the Colours and three subsequent years as a civilian employed by Government, possessing an Army first class certificate of education, can be put in the same position as a store-holder or foreman and granted a Civil Service certificate so that ex-warrant officers and non-commissioned officers with such a record of service, having reached an age of about 47, may feel secure without having to undergo examinations set by the Civil Service Commissioners?

Mr. GUINNESS

I have been asked to answer this question. I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply which I gave on the 5th March to the hon. and gallant Member for Bromley (Lieut.-Colonel James) of which I am sending him a copy. The case of foremen and store-holders who have a normal prospect of establishment in posts in their own grade is not parallel to that of temporary clerks generally competing for posts in the clerical class.