HC Deb 08 October 1940 vol 365 c250
81. Mr. Parker

asked the Home Secretary whether the provisions of the Disabled Men (Facilities of Employment) Act, 1919, will be extended to air-raid precautions workers who may be partially disabled by an accident and find it difficult to get work?

Mr. H. Morrison

If it should be found that such men are hindered from getting work because their employment increases the industrial accident risk, the question how to prevent their being placed at a disadvantage on this account would certainly have to be considered, but experience of the operation of the Act of 1919 showed that there is little, if any, ground for the fear that the employment of disabled men may increase the accident risk.