USE OF SKILLED MEN IN THE SERVICES. INTERIM REPORT OF SIR W. BEVERIDGE'S COMMITTEE. Memo. by Minister of Labour and National Service covering:

PRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE TO PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY, AUGUST, 1941. INTERIM REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SKILLED MEN IN THE SERVICES. To the Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin, M.P., Minister of Labour and National Service. Sir, 1. Terms of Reference: We were appointed by you on the 9th June last as a Committee instructed to "examine in consultation with the three Service Departments, the use now made in the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force of skilled men and to advise in the light of the operational and maintenance commitments of the three Services :(a) whether the skilled man-power already at the disposal of the Services is being used with due economy and effect; (b) whether the Service arrangements for training skilled men are such as to meet to the greatest practicable extent the Service requirements for skilled men; (c) whether the demands of the Services for skilled men as recruits to Service trades during the period ending 31st March, 1942, should in any respect be modified".