Mr. J. JONESasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he is aware that a good number of ex-Service men who were employed as clerks at the Army Pay Office, Upper Thames Street, who have been discharged since 27th June, are holding meetings in different parts of London protesting against the number of young 634W girls who are employed in the above pay office; if he can now state to the House the result of his inquiries into the matter; whether he can see his way clear to have the men in question reinstated; if these men who were appointed to the post in the Army pay office had to pass an examination before being appointed; and whether he is aware that the men have not been discharged for inefficiency, but because young girls are being engaged at a lesser rate of pay?
§ Mr. FORSTERI can add nothing at present to the reply which I gave the hon. Member on the 15th instant.