§ Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked the Minister of Labour (1) whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that a man who registered at Bournemouth as a national volunteer, and was interviewed by the official at the local Employment Exchange on the 22nd February, has not been placed in work; will he explain the cause of the delay; whether six weeks may be taken as the average period taken to place a man in work after enrolment; (2) whether his attention has been drawn to the complaints made by national volunteers against the Employment Exchanges owing to men being sent long distances to do work for which they are totally unfitted; whether he is aware of the case of a draper sent from Christchurch, 2614W Bournemouth, to Paisley, a distance of 500 miles, who returned the same night owing to his inability to perform the work assigned to him; whether he is aware that another man, who had never done labourer's work in his life, was sent from Bournemouth to Paisley and put to do the work of a bricklayer's labourer, and that many men in Paisley could easily have done the work; and how this transfer of labour from one district to another where there are already men able and willing to do the work compares with the principle laid down by the Director-General of National Service that an essential part in his scheme is that men are not to be transferred from one district to another if there are men in the other district already there and equally capable of doing the work?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANAs I informed the hon. Member on the 19th instant, I cannot answer his questions until he gives me the names and addresses of the three National Service Volunteers to whom he refers.