§ Mr. SCURRasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of first and second-class women clerks, or women members of allied Departmental clerical classes, who received promotion to grades on better rates of pay than those of first-class women clerks in the years 1913 and 1919, respectively, and the number of women clerical officers and members of allied Departmental clerical classes who have been promoted to higher clerical and other posts carrying rates of pay above the lower clerical officer scale in the year 1926–27, together with the number of women clerical officers and women members of Departmental clerical classes employed during the last-named period?
Mr. SAMUELThe information asked for in the first two parts of the question is not available in the Treasury and could only be obtained by detailed inquiries which would not, in my opinion, justify the labour involved. As regards the last part of the question, the total number of established women serving in clerical grades on 1st April, 1926, was 7,339. This figure includes a number of posts in clerical or Departmental clerical establishments above the basic grades.