Lieut.-Colonel Lindsayasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he intends to introduce an age and length of service scheme for release from the N.F.S. so that each man will be in a position to calculate his prospects of discharge.
§ Mr. OliverI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the answer which my right hon. Friend gave on 11th October to the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Lipson) and the hon. and gallant Member for Wallasey (Captain Marples).
Lieut.-Colonel Lindsayasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many men were in full employment in the Fire Brigade on 1st January, 1939; how many were serving in the N.F.S. on 1st January, 1942; and how many are so reserved to-day.
§ Mr. OliverI regret that statistics are not available which would enable me to give the figure asked for in the first part of the Question. The figures asked for in the second and third parts are 95,000 and 33,000 respectively.