§ 65. Mr. Swinglerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now state the cost of the civil defence exercise Exodus One in North Staffordshire on 10th May; and what steps were taken to make this exercise realistic.
§ Mr. R. A. ButlerThe exercise cost approximately £725. The assumptions and setting were realistic; and every effort was made, within the compass of a peacetime exercise, to achieve realism in the conduct of the exercise.