HC Deb 18 October 1950 vol 478 c245W
76. Mr. J. Arbuthnot

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty why His Majesty's Government are discharging boom defence officers on grounds of redundancy at a time when the Russians are completing the biggest submarine force in naval history.

Mr. W. Edwards

There has been no discharge on account of redundancy of officers engaged on boom defence work and none is contemplated. The reductions which are being made in the staff of the boom defence and salvage organisation are on the salvage side, where the volume of work is diminishing.