§ Major GLYNasked the Secretary of State for War if he will consider whether an ex-warrant officer, 1st class, with 27 years' service with the Colours and three subsequent years as a civilian employed by Government, possessing an Army first class certificate of education, can be put in the same position as a store-holder or foreman and granted a Civil Service certificate so that ex-warrant officers and non-commissioned officers with such a record of service, having reached an age of about 47, may feel secure without having to undergo examinations set by the Civil Service Commissioners?
Mr. GUINNESSI have been asked to answer this question. I would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the reply which I gave on the 5th March to the hon. and gallant Member for Bromley (Lieut.-Colonel James) of which I am sending him a copy. The case of foremen and store-holders who have a normal prospect of establishment in posts in their own grade is not parallel to that of temporary clerks generally competing for posts in the clerical class.