-2- should ensure that every one receives the same allowances for performing the same public duties. Your Committee, therefore, recommend that the present variations should be brought to an end without delay and that only the standard rates of subsistence allowance should be paid." 5. Prevention on the Select Committee's Report. I have consulted the National Advisory Council for Fire The general feeling of the Council may be summarised as follows:- (i) Trades Union Congress. (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) The disturbance of the "joint declaration" of September 1941 would be a mistake and would give rise to bad feeling at the premises at which these high rates are being paid.