§ Mr. Wardasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of persons under 19 years of age who entered the Civil Service by open examination since the White Paper of 1945 as compared with a similar period before 1938, exclusive of ex-Service personnel who entered by reconstruction examinations.
§ Mr. Glenvil HallThe numbers of recruits under the age of 19 years to the original general Service classes of the established Civil Service in comparable periods were:
—— 1937 and 1938 1945 to March, 1948 inclusive* Executive Class 442 297 Clerical Class 5,651 5,698 Clerical Assistants, Shorthand Typists and Typists 5,685 1,621 * Effectively two years because there was no normal recruitment before April, 1946.