HC Deb 07 November 1945 vol 415 cc1402-3W
Mr. W. Roberts

asked the Undersecretary of State for Air whether he will issue instructions that, where possible, R.A.F. personnel shall be posted to stations near their homes.

Mr. Strachey

We should very much like to do this and I have gone into it most carefully. But I am afraid that I have had to conclude that, especially today, in the midst of the large scale and most complex movements caused by the release scheme and the redeployment of the Force for new tasks, it would be quite impracticable. Where, however, an officer or airman has special compassionate reasons for being posted to a unit near his home, his application is granted whenever practicable.