§ Major LLOYD-GREAMEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Treasury letter of the 29th January, what provision exists for ensuring that officers who believe that they may have special qualifications rendering them suitable for service in particular Departments shall have an opportunity of appearing before the Selection Board proper to those Departments for transfer, or for promotion, if they are otherwise recommended for promotion?
§ Mr. BALDWINI am sending my hon. and gallant Friend a copy of a Treasury 607W Circular dated the 14th instant explaining the method by which the Selection Boards will operate, and from which it will be seen that the Boards propose to grant personal interviews to candidates to the fullest extent possible.
§ Major LLOYD-GREAMEasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the Treasury, in a Circular letter dated the 29th of January, announced the procedure to be followed in the appointment and promotion of Civil servants to posts in new Departments, and that certain posts in the Air Ministry and Ministry of Pensions have been notified to Government Departments in advance of the operation of that procedure; whether all Government Departments were notified of those posts; and, if all Departments were not notified, on what principle the selection was made?
§ Mr. BALDWINFor urgent public reasons it was imperative to fill a comparatively small number of posts in the Air Ministry and Ministry of Pensions at the earliest possible date. The vacancies in question were accordingly notified to the larger Departments, and in selecting candidates from among the nominees of those Departments, the procedure set out in the Treasury Circular of 29th January last has been strictly observed.