§ Mr. E. BROWNasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the Board of Customs and Excise have issued an instruction asking collectors and heads of departments to recommend a certain number of departmental clerks for promotion to the officers' grade; that an age limit of 30 has been imposed, and that this rules out all Lytton and Southborough entrants; and whether he will be prepared to arrange for a scheme whereby Lytton and Southborough entrants can be allowed to deduct from their present age their years of Army service?
§ Mr. McNEILLI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to an almost identical question by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for the Bromley Division (Lieut.-Colonel James) on the 23rd June.