§ Mr. DUNCANasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that ex-policemen with substantial post-War pensions are being employed as warders in the museums; and, seeing that these posts should be reserved for ex-Military, Naval or ex-Service men, or pre-War pensioners generally, whether he will take steps to ensure that in future all vacancies on the warding staffs are filled by recruitment of men from these classes?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANAt the Victoria and Albert Museum no police pensioners are employed on the warding staff. A number are employed as doorkeepers, their previous training and experience having been found of special value for these posts. At the Science Museum the warding staff has normally been recruited from police pensioners. I am prepared to make inquiries as to how far this method of recruitment is necessitated by the requirements of the Museum.