§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he will state how many second division clerks have been appointed to superior positions in the War Office since 1906; and what was the number of such promotions in the previous five years?
§ Colonel SEELYThe figures for the War Office and the Royal Army Clothing Department are as follows:—
From 1st January, 1906, to 20th March, 1911:—
- To staff clerk, four.
- To minor staff clerk, one.
- To second-class assistant accountant (Army Accounts Department), eighty-eight.
From 1st January, 1901, to 31st December, 1905:—
- To staff clerk, twenty-eight.
- To minor staff clerk, two.
- To first-class assistant accountant (Army Accounts Department), seven.
- To second-class assistant accountant (Army Accounts Department), sixty-one.