§ Mr. FORRESTasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of their patriotic action in the War, the Government will sympathetically consider the claim of unestablished civil servants who enlisted without official permission, but who were subsequently reinstated in the Civil Service, to be paid from the date of enlistment, normal deduction, of course, being made for their military pay and allowances?
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Mr. GUINNESSUnder an instruction issued in 1918, heads of Departments were authorised, at their discretion, to reinstate as from the 1st January, 1918, whole-time unestablished employés holdingquasi-permanent and regular situations, who enlisted without permission, provided they belonged to adult classes and had served not less than two years in their situations at the date of enlistment. I regret that I do not feel justified in now re-opening this arrangement.