§ Sir R. Glynasked the Minister of Labour for how long it is the intention of the Government to prevent temporary civil servants taking up work of national importance outside Government service by the retention of the Essential Work Order; and whether he is aware that refusal to state when such civil servants are likely to obtain their release jeopardises their future prospects and entirely prevents them accepting positions which cannot remain open to them indefinitely
§ Mr. DaltonI have been asked to reply. The efficiency of the public service, in320W this critical period of transition from war to peace, is dependent on the continuance, for the present, of the Control of Employment (Civil Servants) Order, 1945. But individual applications for release are sympathetically considered in the light of the personal circumstances of the applicant.