HC Deb 16 April 1940 vol 359 cc804-5W
Mr. R. Morgan

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in the case of those Departments which during war-time employ temporary and permanent civil servants regularly on Saturday afternoons and Sundays in view of war-time exigencies, what arrangements are made to provide alternative days off during the remainder of the week; and whether such rule necessitates the provision of one or one-and-a-half alternative days off?

Captain Crookshank

During the war it is necessary in various Departments to have staff available on Saturday afternoons and Sundays, but every endeavour is made to ensure that individual officers do not have to attend on more than six days of the week, and thus secure one complete day's rest in every seven.