§ Lieut.-Colonel DALRYMPLE WHITEasked the Secretary to the Treasury up to what age men who have served in the present War will be permitted to enter the Ministry of Health, or similar Civil Services, in an administrative or clerical capacity?
§ Mr. BALDWINI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply I gave to his question on the 26th ultimo. The main administrative and clerical classes now being recruited for administrative offices are the Class 1. and junior appointments. The normal pre-war age limits for these posts were twenty-two to twenty-four for Class 1. competitions and eighteen to nineteen and a half for junior appointments. The first competition suspended owing to the War was that which would have taken place in August, 1915, for Class 1., and in November, 1914, for junior appointments. The reconstruction scheme admits for the Class I. competition any candidates between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-eight in August next, and any candidate (even if over the age of twenty-eight) who entered for the examination in 1914 but was not able to compete owing to mobilisation: while for junior appointments all candidates are admitted whose age does not exceed twenty-four and a half in November next.