§ Mr. MILLSasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that P class clerks in the Civil Service who were rejected on medical grounds after success in the Lytton or Southborough examinations, and have now been recommended for exceptional promotion to the established clerical grade under Clause 5 of the Guinness agreement, are being required to submit to a further medical test at a fee of £2 2s.; and whether, in view of the small salaries of the men concerned, he can arrange for a reduction of that fee?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEMy hon. Friend is under some misapprehension. The Civil Service Commission are always prepared in these cases to pay the fee of £2 2s. for the examination by a medical referee of a "P" class clerk presented for promotion to the established clerical classes in the circumstances in question.