§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Labour if he will investigate the case, details of which have been submitted to him, of certain students of a college of London University, called up in 1943 for National Service, who will have completed three years in that Service on 13th September, 1946, but are precluded by existing regulations from release under Class B because they will not have completed that service before 1st September; and, as the original delay in joining the Service was caused by slowness of machinery of enlistment and as these students have been accepted from next September by the college concerned to complete their degree course in science, if he will accelerate their release to enable them to do so.
§ Mr. IsaacsThe time taken during the war to place men in work of national importance necessarily varied, as did the time taken to call men up into the Forces. To make exceptions in the manner suggested would be to give civilians an unjustifiable advantage over members of the Forces.