HC Deb 18 December 1941 vol 376 cc2051-2
16. Mr. Brooke

asked 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 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. Morrison

The whole subject is under examination.