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asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, in view of the fact that under the terms of A.P. 826, the non-industrial staff of the Air Ministry are not allowed to attend meetings of local councils of which they are members unless the time spent in doing so is taken out of their annual leave, he will take steps to ensure that non-industrial staff are in future treated in the same way as industrial staff in that respect.
Air Ministry practice is to allow absence from duty by non-industrial staff for the purpose of attending meetings of local councils of which they are members to be treated as special leave with pay. Although the conditions are not specified in A.P. 826 non-industrials are in fact treated as generously as industrials. A new volume of regulations for non-industrials is in preparation, which will make their position clear.