§ 54. Dr. Edith Summerskillasked the Home Secretary what attributes he has looked for in selecting officers for the Women's Voluntary Services, seeing that the officers he has selected for service appointments have no practical experience of the conditions of the people in the industrial and congested areas?
§ Mr. LloydApart from a very small secretarial staff of civil servants, the women working for Women's Voluntary Services are voluntary workers whose appointment is a matter for those services. I understand, however, that the Women's Voluntary Services are making it their aim to obtain the co-operation and help of women of all types of experience and knowledge.
§ Dr. SummerskillDoes the hon. Gentleman know that organised women and unorganised women in this country who are called upon to form the rank and file of these services are extremely dissatisfied with the arbitrary manner in which the Home Secretary has appointed the higher command?
§ Dr. SummerskillDoes the hon. Gentleman know more about organised and unorganised women than I do?
§ Dr. SummerskillHas the hon. Gentleman had the advice of women who understand the conditions in the industrial and congested areas?
§ Miss WilkinsonDoes the hon. Gentleman really think that a matter of this importance to the women of the country should have been put in the hands of fashionable society ladies and young debutantes?