§ Dr. Littleasked the Secretary of State for War whether, in reducing the number of civilian employees of his Department in Northern Ireland, he will issue immediate instructions that preference should be given to local workers and that those whose place of residence is outside the United Kingdom should be the first to go.
§ Mr. LawsonInstructions were issued to the military authorities in Northern Ireland in July, 1943, that when staff became redundant workers not normally resident in Northern Ireland should be the first to be released, subject only to the preferential retention of disabled ex-Servicemen. Those instructions still stand.