§ Mr. ALLEN PARKINSONasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the annual cost of the new code and cypher school attached to the Admiralty can be stated; what is estimated to be the cost of the staff of this Department; and whether, having in mind the umber of permanent Civil servants with administrative and technical training and experience who will be redundant and available for appointment, and the Government scheme for the staffing of new Departments through the Treasury pool, it is the intention that temporary officers of the Army and Navy shall be granted pensionable appointments in this new Civil Department?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe annual cost of the school will be, approximately, £21,000 a year, which represents the average, cost of the staff. The school is being established in order to conserve and apply the special experience acquired during the War by certain officers who have been employed by the Naval and Military Intelligence Departments, and who were selected for such employment owing to the possession of qualifications not ordinarily required in the Civil Service. The Admiralty adhere to the principle of giving first consideration to the claims of existing Civil servants in all cases in which the deside- 1043W rata are administrative experience and capacity or the technical knowledge already existing in the Civil Service.