§ Mr. BRIANTasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that certain shorthand typists employed in the Public Trustee Office recently applied for consideration for promotion to clerical class vacancies, basing their claims upon the recommendations of the reorganisation committee of the National Whitley Council for the Civil Service, and that they were informed that they could not be considered for promotion on account of their seniority and the point on the shorthand-typist salary scale which they had reached; and whether he will give instructions to the establishment officials of the Public Trustee Office to the effect that the recommendations of the reorganisation committee regarding the promotion rights of shorthand typists must be carried out in the Public Trustee Office in future?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERALI have been asked to reply. There have been no recent specific applications for consideration for promotion to clerical class vacancies by shorthand typists employed in the Public Trustee Office. No shorthand typist has been informed that she could not be considered for promotion on account of her seniority and the point in the shorthand-typist scale which she had reached. There is no necessity for any such instructions as suggested.