§ Mr. GREENEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that an examination was held in the autumn of 1928 for candidates for the executive group of the Civil Service who were between 18 and 19 years of age on 31st December, 1928, and that the next examination will be held in the spring of this year and will be for candidates who will be between 18 and 19 years of age on 1st March, 1930; whether, seeing that the result is that all persons born during the months of January and February, 1911, have been or will be precluded from sitting for either examination on the ground that they were slightly too young for the first and slightly too old for the second, he will consider, in the interests of those 2108W so precluded, the advisability of altering the date of the examination or the date on which candidates have to be between 18 and 19 years of age to one which would allow them to present themselves for examination or of raising, in this instance, the age limit to 19 years and two months?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEI would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave to a similar question from my hon. Friend the Member for St. Pancras North (Mr. Marley) on 9th December last, a copy of which I am sending him.