§ Mr. Parkerasked the Minister of Information whether he is aware that in areas such as Dagenham, there is little voluntary daytime clerical assistance available for the work of the local Ministry of Information Committee; and whether paid clerical assistance, where necessary, can be allowed to rank for grant?
Mr. CooperIt has been the Ministry's policy throughout to make use of voluntary effort wherever possible. This has been forthcoming in ample measure, I am glad to say, in nearly all parts of the Kingdom and I hope it may be found possible in this way to obtain sufficient clerical assistance in the case of Dagenham. I have asked Sir Wyndham Deedes, the Regional Information Officer for the London Region, to go into the matter with those concerned.