Civil Defence

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 February 1983.

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Photo of Sir Patrick Mayhew Sir Patrick Mayhew , Royal Tunbridge Wells 12:00, 3 February 1983

Consultation with the local authority associations is still in progress. My right hon. Friend hopes to lay the new regulations in draft form before Parliament in March. Under the proposed regulations, civil defence grant-aid would be increased from 75 to 100 per cent. on approved local authority expenditure on the training and exercising of staff and volunteers, and on communications and related equipment in emergency wartime headquarters.