§ Viscount WOLMERasked the Minister of Pensions whether he is aware that last August there were more than 4,300 women and only 17 men employed in the Regent's Park huts; and if he can state whether any ex-service men have been taken into employment there in place of women; and, if so, how many?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONPension Issue Office, which is partly accommodated at Regent's Park, has always been regarded as a woman's branch; but the question of substituting the women employed there by ex-service men will be further considered when the recommendation of the Lytton Committee on the subject has been received. The total number of ex-service men employed on clerical duties in Pension Issue Office is now 24. It should, however, be explained that 44 per cent, of the total temporary staff employed by the Ministry are ex-service men.