§ Mr. Smedley Crookeasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that non-ex-service men are employed temporarily in clerical posts in certain of His Majesty's dockyards; that unemployed ex-service men with clerical experience, and in some cases previous 576W Government experience, are registered for re-employment at the Employment Exchanges in the towns concerned; and whether, in view of the Government's pledge that ex-service men shall be given priority of employment in temporary clerical posts in the Government service, he will take the necessary steps to transfer the non-ex-service staffs back to their industrial work in order that effect may be given to this pledge?
§ Lieut.-Colonel LlewellinI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given on the 15th June to a similar question asked by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for the Chatham Division (Captain Plugge).