§ Mr. McENTEEasked the Home Secretary whether in the factory department, women inspectors Classes II, IB, and IA, superintending inspectors, and deputy chief inspectors, are required to possess the same qualifications and perform the same duties as the men; and, if there is any differentiation in their pay, whether he can state its nature?
§ Mr. McENTEEasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, whether, in the Patent Office, women assistant examiners, examiners, senior examiners, and superintending examiners are required to possess the same qualifications and perform the same duties as the men; and, if there is any differentiation in their pay, whether he can state its nature?
§ Mr. GUYasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether in the Department for Agriculture the women surveyors and inspectors are required to possess the same qualifications, and perform the same duties, as the men; and if there is any differentiation in their pay, can he state its nature?
§ Mr. WILMOTasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, whether, in the legal and scientific branches, respectively of Government departments generally, women professional legal clerks, junior scientific officers, technical officers, scientific officers, senior scientific or technical officers, senior chemists, principal scientific or technical officers, or principal chemists are required to possess the same qualifications and perform the same duties as the men; and, if there is any differentiation in their pay, whether he can state its nature?
§ Mr. HUTCHISONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, whether, in the Inland Revenue department, the women third-class valuers, assistant examiners, senior examiners, and the chief examiners are required to possess the same qualifications and perform the same duties as the men; and, if there is any differentiation in their pay, whether he can state its nature?
§ Captain ERSKINE-BOLSTasked the Minister of Agriculture, whether in the education and research (agricultural and horticultural) division, women inspectors, general inspectors, senior inspectors, 3007W assistant botanists, assistant entomologists and mycologists, are required to possess he same qualifications and perform the same duties as the men; and, if there is any differentiation in their pay, can he state its nature?
§ Mr. BANFIELDasked the Home Secretary, whether, in the Science, British, Natural History, and Victoria and Albert museums, the women assistants, assistant keepers, deputy keepers, and keepers are required to possess the same qualifications and perform the same duties as the men; and, if there is any differentiation in their pay, whether he can state its nature?
§ Mr. HUTCHISONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office, whether, in the signals experimental establishment, women technical assistants, assistant experimental officers, experimental officers, junior assistants, and second assistants are required to possess the same qualifications and perform the same duties as the men; and, if there is any differentiation in their pay, whether he can state its nature?
§ Mr. COOPERIn common entry grades in the Civil Service, i.e. grades to which women are admitted under the same regulations as men, the qualifications of women recruits (who secure appointments in competition with men) are naturally similar in the main to those of men recruits. Both men and women are required to perform the duties of the grade to which they are appointed. The relation between the pay of men and woman is fixed in accordance with normal Civil Service practice as described in paragraphs 450 and 451 of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service 1929–31 (Command Paper 3909).