§ Sir W. GREAVES-LORDasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of temporary ex-service clerks serving in Government Departments who are eligible for consideration for permanent non-pensionable status under the provisions of the Government Memorandum of 12th January, 1925; the number of Grade IV clerks serving in the War Department's out-stations eligible for P.U. status under the same agreement; and the respective numbers of temporary ex-service clerks serving in Government Departments and in the War Department out-stations not eligible for such consideration?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEThe total number of temporary ex-service clerks employed on 1st October last in War Office out-stations was 1,786, and in other Government Departments 7,771. No central record is kept showing the distribution of these totals between clerks eligible for permanent non-pensionable status and those not so eligible.