Colonel HOPEasked the Pensions Minister whether, in appointing county and other organising secretaries for the administration of pensions, preference will be given to ex-officers and soldiers; and whether he will see that, as far as possible, no candidate is appointed who has not himself served in the Navy or Army?
§ Sir A. GRIFFITH-BOSCAWENI have no direct control over the selection of persons appointed to fill posts on local war pensions committees, but I have recently urged upon the committees in the strongest terms the desirability of giving preference to disabled men when making salaried appointments to their staff.