HC Deb 29 February 1940 vol 357 cc2271-2W
Sir G. Fox

asked the Home Secretary the total cost of air-raid precautions personnel, and the cost, in each month of the war, as divided between regional areas, showing the increase or decrease in the cost?

Sir J. Anderson

The total monthly cost of the pay of whole-time volunteers enrolled for air-raid precautions services (including the auxiliary fire service) from September onwards is as shown below:

1939. £
September 2,901,300
October 3,151,400
November 3,242,200
December 3,413,900
1940.
January (Estimated) 3,247,200

It is not possible without an undue amount of labour to state for each month how the total cost of the pay of whole-time volunteers was divided between the various regions.