asked the Minister of Pensions whether any proposals are under consideration for the staffing of area offices of the Ministry with permanent civil servants; and whether, seeing that the chief area officers, deputy chief area officers, and clerks at area offices are all ex-service men, many of them disabled, and that these temporary civil servants have had years of intimate association with pensioners, he will, in the interests of the ex-service men employed in the area offices, restrict employment, other than typists and cleaners, in those offices to the men who have efficiently carried on their duties for many years?