§ Colonel Wedgwoodasked the Home Secretary whether he can give the numbers of those employed whole-time as police reserve, war police, ambulance workers, male and female; and whether these are in addition to the 291,000 paid whole-time volunteers in the air-raid precautions and Auxiliary Fire Services; and how many of these are paid £2 a week and upwards?
§ Sir J. AndersonAs regards the police services, the latest available figures are as follows:
First Police Reserve (men) 7,832 Police War Reserve (men) 26,739 Women's Auxiliary Police Corps 125 These are all paid £2 a week or more. These figures were not included in the figure of 291,000 given in reply to a Question by the right hon. and gallant Gentleman on 14th December. As regards the ambulance service, the total (which was included in that figure of 201,000) is 29,230 whole-time volunteers, who are paid £2 a week or more. It is not possible to state the exact proportion of men and women included in this total.