§ Major HILLSasked the Postmaster-General, seeing that clerical officers in the Savings Bank Department have been invited to transfer to the Ministry of Health, the men to carry their seniority, whereas women will be required to take their places at the bottom of the present 1942W Ministry of Health staff, what is the reason for the differentiation between the sexes, especially in view of the fact that there is some redundancy of the women's staff in the Savings Bank Department?
§ Mr. LEES-SMITHThe Post Office, in common with other Departments of the Civil Service, was asked by the Ministry of Health to invite applications for transfer from clerical officers (men and women) in connection with the new pensions work, and it was stipulated that seniority could be carried only in the case of redundant staff. In the Post Office Headquarter Departments the condition as to redundancy was fulfilled only in the case of male clerical officers employed in the Savings Bank and one other Department. There is no redundancy of women clerical officers in the Savings Bank Department.