§ Major HILLSasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the general dissatisfaction caused by the grading of the women's work in the various Departments employing women, he will arrange for the work of both the men's and women's branches to be examined by an independent committee so as to ensure that work of the same kind shall be graded the same irrespective of sex?
Mr. YOUNGThe re-grading of the work in the various Government Departments is carried out after very careful investigation and consideration, and the revised complements are only fixed after consultation with the staffs concerned on the Departmental Whitley Councils. There is no foundation for the suggestion that work is re-graded differently according to the sex of the officers who perform it, and I am therefore unable to accept the proposal that the question should be further reviewed by a committee.