MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINEasked the Secretary to the Treasury, whether the Treasury or any Government Department possesses powers which enables it so to interfere with the office and status of a Civil servant as to vitiate the free choice as regards the Department in which he elects to serve which he exercises when he becomes a candidate for a Civil Service appointment, or if a Civil servant's consent is necessary before he can be transferred to an office previously recognised as a separate and distinct appointment under the Civil Service Commission?
§ Mr. MASTERMANExcept in the case of those classes of officials which are common to the whole Civil Service, the transfer of a Civil servant from one Department to another is usually subject to his own consent; but it rests with the head of a Department to settle the duties which it may be necessary for him in the public interest to call upon his officers to perform.