§ 85. Major Beamishasked the Secretary of State for War which Government Departments are either discouraging their employees from joining the Home Guard or precluding this; and whether he will take steps to ensure that any such regulations are revised, and to approach independent bodies, such as the boards of nationalised industries, with a view to securing their co-operation in inducing their employees to join the Home Guard.
§ Mr. HeadI have no evidence that Government Departments have issued instructions calculated to discourage or prevent employees from joining the Home Guard, but there have been misunderstandings locally about the voluntary and part-time nature of the Home Guard. I am taking steps to dispel any doubts there may be, and to enlist the help of other Departments and boards of nationalised industries in the building up of the Home Guard and in the particular measures to be taken for the defence in emergency of their own installations.