§ Mr. E. BROWNasked the Secretary of State for Air how many ex-service temporary assistant civil engineers have been promoted to higher grades since they were refused establishment in the lower grades; and, if these men have been considered fit to carry out the duties of civil engineers, why they were not established under paragraph 45 of the third Lytton Report?
§ Sir S. HOAREThe answer to the first part of the question is none, and in these circumstances the second part has not arisen. I should, however, explain that the aggregate establishment of the Works and Buildings Directorate comprises established and unestablished posts; officers who were found at the limited competition, already held, to be unsuitable for establishment are not excluded on that account from consideration for promotion in an unestablished capacity to posts for which their qualifications may render them suitable.