§ 53. Brigadier Prior-Palmerasked the Minister of Labour whether, in the interests of the recruitment of nurses, the same facilities as regards railway warrants will be extended to volunteer nurses as are given to conscript nurses to enable the former to visit their homes which, unless these facilities are extended to them, they are unable to afford to do.
§ Mr. IsaacsThe distinction in the provision of this and other facilities available to nurses taking employment or training away from home is between those who were placed at the instance of my Department and those who were engaged direct236W by hospitals, and was made after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Nurses and Midwives. The facilities have not been linked with compulsory direction to hospital work, which was applied in only a small minority of cases and, since the removal of all labour controls on 20th June last, is no longer exercised.