Sir F. HALLasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will give further consideration to the desirability of offering writing assistantships to temporary women civil servants who obtained 450 marks or over in the writing assistant examination of January, 1925; and whether he will give some assurance that these women who have had many years in the Government service will not be prejudiced by the introduction of young girls from outside the service with no Government experience?
§ Mr. McNEILLAs regards the first part of the question, as I informed the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) on the 15th December, the question of the number of marks necessary for qualification in examinations for entry to the Civil Service is one for the decision of the Civil Service Commissioners, and I should not feel justified in interfering with their decision. As regards the second part, I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply given on the 18th December to the hon. Member for North Lambeth (Mr. Briant), of which I am sending him a copy.