§ MR. ASHLEYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War what percentage of the rank and file living in barracks in the United Kingdom sleep and eat in the same room.
§ MR. HALDANEThere are no statistics available to give the proportion. Wherever possible, that is, when accommodation exists, dining-rooms are used. The proportion, moreover, varies, as a barrack which may not be able, from pressure on its accommodation, to find dining-rooms at one time may be able to do so at another time. Every effort is made administratively to allow dining-rooms to be provided. In new barracks, dining-rooms are being arranged for.