Mr. Dugdaleasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will publish a list of all whole-time or part-time appointments which are made on his nomination from outside the Civil Service or on which he must be consulted.
§ Colonel StanleyThose appointments in the Colonial Office which may be filled otherwise than through the machinery employed for the Civil Service generally fall into two classes. The first are those which require a special knowledge and experience of the different problems affecting the Colonial Empire, and which are filled by officers who have served for considerable periods in overseas territories, or who are eminent in their own fields. These include the appointments of Agricultural Adviser and his assistant, Adviser on Animal Health, Air Transport Adviser, Business Adviser, Adviser on Demography, Educational Adviser and Assistant Educational Adviser, Labour Adviser and Medical Adviser, as well as the temporary appointment held by Lord Hailey. Other appointments of a similar character may be made from outside the Civil Service. The second class is that of a number of officers of the Colonial Service who are temporarily appointed or seconded from time to time, usually for limited periods, to administrative posts in the Colonial Office. I am not sure whether my hon. Friend includes in his Question appointments to posts in the Colonial Service overseas for which I am responsible. Such appointments are fully described in recruitment pamphlets published by the Colonial Office.