HC Deb 13 May 1936 vol 312 cc387-8W
Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND - TROYTE

asked the Postmaster-General how many ex-service post-war entrants to the male clerical class have been promoted to either higher clerical officers or executive officers in the Savings Bank Department, Blythe Road, West Kensington?

Sir W. WOMERSLEY

No ex-service post-war entrant to the male clerical class has yet been promoted in the Savings Bank Department.

Lieut.-Colonel ACLAND - TROYTE

asked the Postmaster-General how many of the male clerical class in the savings bank department, Blythe Road, are postwar entrants; and whether, now that executive posts in this Department are falling vacant, he will give an assurance that no age bar will be applied which will prevent these men being considered on their merits for such posts?

Sir W. WOMERSLEY

Of the male clerical officers in the Savings Bank Department 392 were appointed after the Armistice. Clerical officers will be considered on their merits for promotion to the executive and the higher clerical grades, and there is no present intention of applying an age bar in connection with such promotions.