§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Minister of Health the number of persons in receipt of parish relief in the parishes of Devonport, Plymouth, and Stonehouse, respectively, specifying the various categories, for the month of February, 1930?
§ Mr. GREENWOODThe following statement shows the number of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief in the parishes of Devonport, Plymouth and East Stonehouse on the last Saturday in February, 1930.
should be selected for these appointments.
§ Mr. KELLYasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether, seeing that, for the positions of assistant surveyors, trainees are brought in because they possess an engineering degree and are appointed to the posts to the disadvantage of the surveyors' clerks who have have been in the service of the Ministry for years and, from that experience of the work, have to teach the trainees, surveyors' clerks will now be given the opportunity to fill these posts and the age and examination limitation removed?
§ Mr. MONTAGUETwo candidates who possess an engineering degree were recently appointed to the Air Ministry with 839W a view to being trained as assistant quantity surveyors; the intention was that they should be so trained not by surveyors' clerks, but by the surveyors and assistant surveyors already in the service. The original proposal has, however, been modified and they are being employed in fact not on quantity surveyors' work, but on other work for which their previous technical training and experience render them suitable. The vacancies in question could not have been adequately filled by the promotion of surveyors' clerks. As regards the opportunities open to the latter of obtaining promotion to assistant surveyors' posts, I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to him of 5th March.