Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Government Departments. – in the House of Commons at on 30 January 1940.
Mr Valentine McEntee
, Walthamstow West
Will the hon. Gentleman say whether it is not a fact that they are being instructed in their duties, day by day, by permanent civil servants who are receiving less money, and that they received an average of a 50 per cent. increase in their salaries within a couple of months? Is it not a scandal that these people should be brought in and put over the heads of men who are infinitely better qualified?