HC Deb 19 March 1926 vol 193 cc754-6W
Mr. GROVES

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what was the number of appointments to the clerical class, women, or to the earlier woman clerk class, by the following means, respectively, during each year from 1917 until now: promotion of writing assistants, promotion of members of the typing grades, by limited competition amongst temporary women clerks, by open corn-petitions, by Treasury selection of Post Office manipulative women's staff, and by limited competitions for Post Office manipulative staff?

Year. Nomination. Competition among Temporary Clerks. Open Competition. Post Offices Limited Competition.
(1) (2) (3) (4)
1917 108 506
1918 77 421
1919 61 494
1920 71 866 246
1921 323 469
1922 123 416 26 30
1923 85 146 33 41
1924 117 1 12
1925 184 91 240 1
Total 1,149 1,989 1,966 84

The appointments by nomination were mainly promotions, but include some reinstatements and transfers. I am afraid that I could not divide the promotions between different grades over the whole period without a detailed

Mr. R. McNEILL

The number of women certified to the classes named since 1917 is as follows:

scrutiny of individual papers. The number of Post Office manipulative staff (women) appointed to the clerical class by selection (who are included in the table) was 124.