HC Deb 08 July 1943 vol 390 cc2230-1
14. Sir Robert Rankin

asked the Home Secretary whether the Regional Commissioners are informed of the special instruction now being given by the Red Cross Society in respect to rescue work on land of the crews of aircraft which have crashed?

Mr. H. Morrison

Instructions as to the rescue of crews from crashed aircraft are given in a confidential training pamphlet issued by the Ministry of Home Security, to which the notice not only of Regional Commissioners but of all local authorities concerned with Civil Defence has been drawn, and many Civil Defence personnel have been specially trained on the lines indicated in the pamphlet. I understand that the instruction being given by the Red Cross Society to which my hon. Friend refers follows similar lines.