§ Miss RATHBONEasked the Home Secretary whether the regulations under revision exclude from the factory inspectorate candidates of British birth and education, however otherwise well qualified, who are not the sons of British subjects; and whether he will consider the advisability of dealing with such applications on their individual merits?
§ Mr. CLYNESThe general rule is that every candidate for a factory inspectorship must be a natural-born British subject and the child of a person who is or was at the time of death a British subject, but the Regulations, of which I recently sent the hon. Member a copy, set forth various cases in which exception may be made. The rule in question applies generally to appointments in the Civil Service, and, so far as I am aware, it is not under revision.