Home Guard.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Service. – in the House of Commons at on 2 July 1942.

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Photo of Mr James Wootton-Davies Mr James Wootton-Davies , Heywood and Radcliffe

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what instructions are being issued to civil servants with regard to joining the Home Guard; and whether, in the case of civil servants whose work will continue to be essential under invasion conditions, it can be made clear that if they join the Home Guard, it will be for the Minister in charge of their Department and not the military authorities to say when and under what conditions they may temporarily abandon their Civil Service activities and participate in Home Guard defensive operations?