§ 67. Mr. Edmund Harveyasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he has been able to give further consideration to the discrepancy between the billeting allowance of £11s. per week for evacuated civil servants, covering lodging and two meals per day, and the billeting allowance of 5s. per week to householders on whom evacuated teachers 1204 are billeted; and whether, in view of the heavy charges falling upon teachers who have to provide their own board in the reception areas and maintain their home and family elsewhere, he is now prepared to place them on an equality with evacuated civil servants?
§ Captain CrookshankCivil servants who are not householders are, in general, required, after an initial period, normally of a fortnight, to repay the allowance of 21s. paid to their billetors. The position of those who are householders is to be reviewed, and the question of the contribution to be required of them is to be the subject of early consideration. When a decision on this issue is taken the position of teachers will be further considered.