Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Government Departments. – in the House of Commons at on 22 May 1941.
Mr Ernest Bevin
, Wandsworth Central
I do not refuse to supply them, but the staff of the Department is full up with work, and unless there is an extraordinary reason why a list of these people and their previous occupations should be compiled, I suggest that the Department should be allowed to get on with its ordinary work.