§ Lieut.-Colonel POWNALLasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Southborough Committee will be given powers to deal with the claim of temporary women clerks to appointment and to further opportunities of appointment to established vacancies allocated to women, in view of the fact 2361W that the Lytton Committee Report dealt with establishment facilities for women as well as for men?
Mr. GRAHAMI would refer to the answer which I gave on the 10th March to the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Sir W. de Frece), of which I am sending the hon. and gallant Member a copy.