§ Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for Air when all the warning notices will be issued to those Class G Reservists who have been selected for call-up for 15 days' training during 1951; and whether he is aware that until these notices have been distributed a large number of men will be left in suspense as to their future and be unable to make their summer arrangements with certainty.
§ Mr. A. HendersonWe are fully aware of the importance of giving preliminary warning to the individuals affected as soon as possible, and consequently have made special arrangements to this end. All the preliminary warning letters to released officers and Class G Reservists whom we shall need to come up for 15 days' training with the Control and Reporting Organisation during 1951, have now been dispatched under registered cover, and indeed should already have been received. The officers and men concerned have been given a number of alternative training periods between the beginning of June and the end of September from which to choose, and we shall, as far as possible, try to accommodate them in the period of their choice.
I should make it clear that this does not apply to members of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, whose call-up will be effected in a different manner. So far as the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve is concerned, we are working on the principle of "volunteers first" and it will naturally therefore take a little time before we can sort out those who may be called up compulsorily.