§ Lieutenant-Colonel Sir J. NORTON GRIFFITHSasked the Home Secretary whether the National Health Insurance Commission (England) ceased to grant promotion to their permanent clerks from February, 1915, to the end of the War, whereas promotion has been granted by other Departments as nearly as possible according to normal conditions; and, if so, what steps will be taken to remedy the apparent injustice done to those clerks who have been serving with His Majesty's forces throughout the War?
§ Mr. PRATTI have been asked to reply to this question. Promotions on the permanent staff of the Insurance Commission, which was a comparatively new Department at the outbreak of War, have not ceased during the War, but certain posts have been left unfilled, especially in junior grades, mainly with the object of avoiding the possibility of injustice to the claims of men absent with the forces.