Captain CROOKSHANKasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what are the qualifications for his post of the new Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; and what is the length of his previous service in the Colonial Office, other branches of the home Civil Service, and the Colonial Civil Service, respectively?
§ Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTERSir John Maffey served in the Indian Civil Service from 1899 to 1924, and during the last years of his service in India he was Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province. From 1926 until his appointment as Under-Secretary of State he has been Governor-General of the Sudan. I am sure it will be generally agreed that his long and varied administrative experience fully qualify him for the post he has now undertaken.