HC Deb 07 December 1908 vol 198 cc63-4
MR. ASHLEY

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state how many of the married couples living in one room in barracks in the United Kingdom have children living with them.

MR. HALDANE

No returns are forwarded to the War Office containing the required information.

MR. ASHLEY

Is there no limit at the War Office as to the number of people allowed to sleep in one room?

MR. HALDANE

asked for notice.

MR. ARTHUR LEE

Is it a fact that there are actually married men in the service with children living in one room only? If that is so, what step is the right hon. Gentleman taking to inquire with a view to remedying that disgusting state of affairs?

MR. HALDANE

I succeeded to a great mass of these cases, and I am doing all I can to remedy them. Wherever we can, we provide two rooms.

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