§ Mr. HAYESasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that some Departments have not applied that Clause of the Second Interim Report of the Southborough Committee dealing with women on women's work; and whether he will take steps to ensure that this Clause as well as the rest of the Report is carried out by making certain that, in departments where the permanent establishment of women is fixed on a proportionate and not a nature-of-work basis as compared with the establishment of men, similar proportions of temporary clerical work are reserved for ex-service men and women staff, respectively?
Mr. GRAHAMThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. I am not aware of any recommendation in the Report in question which will bear the interpretation placed upon it in the second part of the question.