§ Mr. BANFIELDasked the Minister of Labour how many temporary clerks 831W employed in his Department are ineligible for appointment to permanent pensionable posts under regulations recently issued?
§ Sir H. BETTERTONOut of 12,232 temporary clerks employed on 1st November, 1932, rather more than 2,000 have the requisite length of service rendering them eligible for appointment to permanent posts in accordance with the recent report of the temporary staffs committee, and of these all but about 250 are eligible for pensionable posts in accordance with that report.