HC Deb 24 July 1939 vol 350 cc1016-7
61. Captain Plugge

asked the Minister of Health the anticipated number, by districts, of evacuees who will require to be transported from the different evacuated districts of Kent, in case of an emergency?

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horabrugh)

The plans now in operation are based on the assumption that it will be necessary to provide transport for the following numbers in the priority classes from the towns in Kent covered by the present railway time-tables:

Chatham Borough 11,800
Gillingham Borough 17,700
Rochester Borough 9,800
Plans for the further towns which it is now proposed to add to the evacuable category are now being worked out, but full details are not yet available.