Captain Shawasked the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider granting members of the Home Guard two free travelling passes per year to enable them to visit their families who have been evacuated, or consider granting cheap fares covering a period up to 14 days?
§ Mr. LawI do not think that there would be any good reason for treating members of the Home Guard differently in this respect from civilians, who may under existing arrangements obtain cheap travel facilities for visits to evacuated families once a month. Members of the Home Guard are not, of course, required by the nature of their duties to live away from home in the same way as other members of the Armed Forces.