§ Mr. Masonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many civil servants in his Department over the past 10 years, giving the ranks, went within two years of retirement or resignation to other jobs and sought permission within the ruling of paragraph 5 of Command Paper No. 5517, specifying which subsection of that paragraph was involved and the firms involved in each case.
§ Mr. BrookeMy reply to the hon. Gentleman on 30th November referred to two officers of the Home Office who had been given approval to take appointments with industrial firms during the past 10 years and the names of the firms concerned.
One case fell under subsection (a) of paragraph 5 of Command Paper 5517: that is, the firm concerned (Vickers-Armstrong Ltd.) had contractual relations with the Government, though not with the Home Office. In the other case, approval was sought and granted purely as a matter of general propriety.