§ Mr. R. Morganasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that young persons in the early twenties are doing paid work at the air-raid precautions posts in London; and whether, in view of the wider calls on their services, it is possible to find such persons more useful employment?
§ Mr. H. MorrisonI cannot accept the suggestion that Civil Defence is not on a par with the highest class of useful employment. A reorganisation of the London Civil Defence Services is, however, now in progress, in the course of which a number of younger men will be released for the Armed Forces and other 737W national service more suited to their years. The progress of substitution of older or less mobile women for the young women now serving must necessarily depend upon the possibility of obtaining a sufficiency of women in the localities concerned who are not already fully engaged in vital work.