§ Mr. Sorensenasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of public misgivings and resentment respecting the facility with which air-raid precautions officers, central control officers and high municipal officers change their employment whilst ordinary members of the Civil Defence Service and municipal employees cannot do so; and whether he has taken or will take any action to allay this feeling and deal with the grievance?
§ Mr. MabaneThe need to maintain the strength of vital civil defence services made it necessary to provide by Orders made under Defence (General) Regulation 29B that whole-time paid members of these services should continue in their employment until their services were dispensed with by the appropriate authority. In many cases it would not be in the interests of efficient local government administration and the most effective use of the experienced staffs available to impose general restrictions on the inter-authority transfer of local government officers engaged in administrative and executive duties.