§ Sir WILLIAM BULLasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in the case of a man who serves for 15 years in the Civil Service, is then imprisoned for a year as a conscientious objector, and then serves another five years, he is entitled to claim 15 or 20 years' service?
Mr. HILTON YOUNGUnder present arrangements, Civil Service conscientious objectors suspended from permanent employment, and subsequently re-instated, would normally count service prior to and subsequent to suspension, subject to the proviso that in no case would service between the beginning of suspension and the let April, 1920, be counted. The greater number of conscientious objectors who were actually imprisoned were not eligible for re-instatement.