HC Deb 22 June 1939 vol 348 cc2478-9W
Mr. H. Beaumont

asked the Lord Privy-Seal why officers and staffs of county hospitals and institutions who have taken the essential courses of training and passed examinations in connection with air-raid precautions are not being issued with air-raid precautions badges?

Sir J. Anderson:

The air-raid precautions badge is intended as a recognition of the obligations undertaken by persons who volunteer for local authorities' and other air-raid precautions services and persons who take special courses of training in order to enable them to carry out their normal duties under war time conditions are not, merely by reason of their having undergone such training, eligible for the badge. I understand, however, that my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health has under consideration the question of providing some other special form of recognition for the staffs of hospitals and institutions in such circumstances as are mentioned in the question.