HC Deb 18 June 1952 vol 502 cc100-1W
59. Mr. H. Hynd

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why African civil servants in Kenya are not allowed to take the Asian Civil Service examination; and when the common scale of clerical grades for Europeans, Asians and Africans, as recommended by the Holmes Commission, will be instituted.

Mr. Lyttelton

The Governor of Kenya is not aware of any case in which an African civil servant has been refused permission to take the Asian Civil Service examination. The Holmes Commission recommended separate salary scales for Europeans, Asians and Africans in a general and clerical division of the service, but the Kenya Government decided that the Commission's scales should be re-designated without racial discrimination so that outstanding officers of any race could be advanced from scale to scale according to their merits.

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