§ 16. Mr. Brookeasked the Home Secretary whether he will investigate what proportion of full-time women Civil Defence workers are working shifts which amount to the minimum of 48 hours per week and 2052 no longer; and whether, in view of the growing shortage of woman-power, he will now require a rearrangement of shifts and a longer minimum week, combined with an adjustment of pay, so that women who are surplus to requirements on the new basis may be set free for other forms of war work?
§ Mr. H. MorrisonThe whole subject is under examination.