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54.
Mr. R. Harris
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, having regard to the present level of wages, if he will now increase the maximum allowance from £8 10s. per week to £13 per week payable as compensation to a Civil Defence volunteer sustaining injury while performing duties in a peace-time emergency.
Mr. R. A. Butler
The amount payable under the National Insurance (Industrial In juries) Acts and the Civil Defence Corps (Sick Pay) Warrant varies according to the volunteer's family circumstances, and the figure of £8 10s. a week applies only to a single man. These payments are designed to obviate hardship, and I have no reason to suppose that they are inadequate for this purpose.