asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the number of civil servants who pleaded conscientious objections in the War; the number of those who accepted alternative work of national importance and the number who declined to accept such work; the number of those who were dismissed; and the number of those who were subsequently reinstated, with the dates of their reinstatement,?

The answer to the first part of the question is 300 approximately; to the fourth part between 40 and 50. I regret that no information is available which would enable me to supply the information asked in the second and third parts of the question. As regards the last part of the question, the number subsequently reinstated was about 230. These reinstatements took effect in general from 1st April, 1920.