§ Sir E. GRAHAM-LITTLEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the advertisements in the Press of December last by the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Lock, for a male junior assistant metallurgist, not exceeding the age of 36, possessing practical experience and a university honours degree, and by the Royal Gunpowder Factory Laboratory for a male junior assistant, not exceeding the age of 27, possessing a university degree in chemistry with not less than second-class honours, both appointments carrying a basic initial salary of £160 per annum, were issued with his approval; and whether the remuneration offered has received the approval of the Whitley Council?
§ Mr. COOPERThe advertisements were duly authorised. As regards the second part, the scale of remuneration offered is that which was introduced for junior assistant metallurgists in the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich, in 1925, with the agreement of the Out-station Committee of the War Office Administrative Whitley Council. The same scale has been in operation for junior assistant chemists in other War Department establishments since 1920.