Mr. HUTCHISONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of men who have been brought into the Civil Service from the outside since November, 1931; whether the decision as to their appointment has in each case rested with the head of the Department needing their services; and whether the Treasury is satisfied that none of the posts which have been given to outsiders could have been filled by transference inside the service?
§ Major ELLIOTAs regards the first part of the question, I would refer to the answer which I gave on 2nd June to my hon. Friend the Member for Dorset East (Mr. Hall-Caine). I am sending my hon. Friend a copy of the return (Command Paper No. 4094) therein mentioned. As regards the second and third parts, Departments are in continual consultation with the Treasury in order to secure all possible economies in staffing arrangements, including, wherever possible, the filling of new vacancies by transfers within the service.