§ Lieutenant W. Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will include among those CD. personnel receiving gratuity the men employed as auxiliary police at the internment camps in the Isle of Man, many of whom served over a period of five years.
§ Mr. EdeNo, Sir. As explained by the then Prime Minister in his statement of 8th March, 1945, the payment of Civil Defence gratuity is restricted to persons 421W who were employed under Civil Defence conditions of service and whose remuneration was related to Army rates of pay. The auxiliary policemen to whom my hon. and gallant Friend refers do not fall within this category.