HC Deb 29 March 1945 vol 409 cc1551-2W
Mr. G. Hutchinson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it is intended to maintain the reserved age for male civil servants in the administrative and analogous groups at 30 years as at present during the period following the end of the war with Germany.

Sir J. Anderson

My right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour and National Service has announced in Command Paper 6568 of 1944 that he does not normally propose to call up for military service after the end of the war with Germany men who had attained the age of 28 at that date. This decision will apply to civil servants as to other members of the community.

Sir J. Anderson

This information is not available in the detail asked for by my hon. Friend, but the following table gives estimates of the numbers in ranges of net income after taxation from £1,50 upwards for the year 1938–39, the last pre-war year, and for 1942–43, the latest year for which such figures are available: