§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Education whether it is with his approval that 1,000 L.C.C. elementary schoolteachers are to be ordered to provincial districts when London children are evacuated because an insufficient number of teachers have volunteered for duty in the reception areas; by what means this compulsion would be enforced; whether he has sought the co-operation of the Minister of Labour; and whether any monetary compensation is to be offered.
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§ Mr. ButlerI understand that further interviews are being held with L.C.C. teachers at which they will be given a further opportunity to volunteer for service in the reception areas. If these efforts to secure volunteers are unsuccessful, powers under Defence Regulation 58A will be used to direct individual teachers to work in reception areas to which London children have been evacuated. The same evacuation allowances will be payable to these teachers as to those who volunteer for evacuation.