§ Sir G. Mitchesonasked the Home Secretary whether he can state the average weekly wage cost of air-raid precautions workers during October; and what change this represents as compared with that of September?
§ Sir J. AndersonThe average weekly expenditure on the pay of whole-time volunteers enrolled in the Air-Raid Precautions and Emergency Fire Services during the month of October is estimated to have been £775,000. Returns of actual disbursements in September indicate that the weekly expenditure in that month was approximately £688,000 as against the previous estimate of £720,000 given in my reply to a question by my hon. Friend on 26th October.