§ Mr. R. YOUNGasked the Prime Minister upon what grounds 88 per cent. of the mechanical engineering draughts-men continuously employed. in Government Departments are unestablished; and whether he will, at an early date, provide suitable Civil Service establishment grades for these draughtsmen, and authorise the requisite number of posts to be filled by recruitment from the existing staffs of engineering draughtsmen in each Government Department?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe question of the extension in this grade of the privilege of establishment is at present under consideration.