§ 79. Mr. Brookeasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury in which Departments, and to what extent, the Government have introduced the system of 1662 part-time work into their own service in order to utilise those whose domestic responsibilities prevent them from taking full-time work and to set free full-time staff for other duties?
§ Captain CrookshankAll Departments have been instructed that, where practicable, part-time workers must be utilised in substitution for whole-time workers who are being released for service with the Forces or for vital war industry. Returns of staff are made at the end of every quarter, and until the return for the current quarter is available I am not in a position to say to what extent the employment of part-time workers in Departments has increased as a result of this instruction.