§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Postmaster-General if the women typists in the secretary's office of the Post Office are appointed under the Treasury rules governing women typists' posts; if not, are the successful candidates on appointment to the secretary's office made aware that their appointments are under less favourable conditions than those of all other women typists in the public service; and 59W how is it that women typists in the secretary's office, unlike all other women typists in the service, are not allowed to proceed to the scale of pay of shorthand typists when they reach the maximum pay of the typist class and have passed the necessary qualifying examination?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe women typists employed in the Secretary's Office of my Department are appointed under the Treasury Regulations governing such posts, except that in view of the large number of typists employed there and the comparatively smaller number of shorthand writers required they have been expressly excluded by the Lords Commissioners from the application of the arrangement whereby as many as 50 per cent, may be graded as shorthand typists and proceed to the higher maximum for officers so employed. In the Post Office authority is given from time to time for the actual number of shorthand typists required by the work. In the printed information which is sent to candidates there is no undertaking that 50 per cent. of the typists will be promoted to the higher grade, but only an intimation that a limited number may be so promoted.