Viscountess ASTORasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what machinery exists for the promotion of established shorthand-typists to superintendent vacancies when they are employed in offices whose complements do not include superintendent posts; and what machinery exists for the consideration of established shorthand-typists with many years' service in the grade and without immediate prospects of promotion to superintendentships within their own Department in connection with superintendent vacancies arising in Departments where the average seniority of shorthand-typists is very much lees?
§ Mr. McNEILLNo central and general machinery exists for the promotion of established shorthand-typists to posts as superintendent when they are employed in offices whose complements do not include superintendent posts. Arrangements vary between Departments. No special arrangement has been made for the purpose mentioned in the latter part of the question.