HC Deb 07 August 1941 vol 373 c2080
33. Mr. Rhys Davies

asked the Home Secretary whether he has now received the report of the Regional Commissioner on the dismissal of a section leader from the Cambridge air-raid precautions service?

Mr. H. Morrison

No, Sir.

Mr. Glenvil Hall

Can my right hon. Friend say when he is likely to receive this report?

Mr. Morrison

I have not asked for a report. I have made inquiries, but I have not asked for a report. The view I took in the House last week was that this was a local dispute which ought to be settled locally. The Regional Commissioner has seen the parties, I believe, and has done what he could in the matter, and I do not think it is a dispute of such a character that it needs the personal intervention of a Minister to settle it.

Mr. Hall

Surely my right hon. Friend will remember that he did say that he would ask the Regional Commissioner to examine this matter, and surely the Regional Commissioner will report to him?

Mr. Morrison

He may or may not; it is not obligatory that he should, because I should think that this is hardly a matter which ought to bother us.