§ 48. Mr. Goodhewasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultations he has had concerning the need for a credible Civil Defence Corps and for public air raid shelters in the event of a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesNone recently. The Home Office has continuing consultations with the local authority associations and others on ways to improve home defence preparedness, and plans envisage that local authorities would undertake local civil defence operations, making all possible use of voluntary effort. Successive Governments have considered that the enormous cost of building special shelters is not justified and that the better course is to tell people at the proper time what to do to improve the protection given by their homes.