§ Mr. Rhys Daviesasked the Minister of Information whether he will compare like with like in announcing civilian casualties consequent upon enemy air-raids by giving the monthly figures during present hostilities and those of similar periods during the Great War as is done with our shipping losses, instead of comparing air-raid casualties with road accidents; and whether he will give the comparative figures as suggested since the commencement of the present war?
§ Sir J. AndersonI have been asked to reply. So far as air attack is concerned, conditions to-day are so different from those obtaining during the last war that I do not think it would be profitable to give comparative figures on the lines suggested by my hon. Friend. As stated today, in answer to a Question by the hon. Member for Duddeston (Mr. Simmonds), I do not propose to invite comparison between the numbers of air-raid casualties and the numbers of persons killed and injured in road accidents.