asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what are the grades of the no male publicity officers over the reservation age for their grade; and what are the ages of reservation for these grades?

The grades in which these men are employed are administrative, executive, or professional and technical grades, with a reservation age of 30; and clerical grades with a reservation age of 35.

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether it is the policy of the Government to differentiate, as far as reservation is concerned, between journalists employed in Government offices and those doing similar important work in the newspaper industry?

No, Sir. Reservation in the Civil Service, as in industry generally, depends upon a man's present, not his former, occupation. Accordingly, former journalists now in the Civil Service are reserved at the age appropriate to the grade in which they are employed; this age being determined, as my hon: Friend is aware, on the advice of the Kennet Committee.