§ Lieut.-Colonel JAMESasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the possession of first or second-class certificates of education by ex-service candidates for permanent posts in the Civil Service will be accepted as sufficient evidence of educational capacity?
Mr. GUINNESSThe Southborough Committee recommended that all ex-service men who were candidates for posts in the clerical class in the Civil Service should be required to pass a test consisting partly of a written examination and partly of a Departmental Report. I am afraid that I cannot agree to exempt any particular class of candidate from this test.