HC Deb 20 June 1940 vol 362 cc230-1
28. Mr. Mander

asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider the advisability of arranging for a further grant to be made to the National Camps Corporation, Limited, for the erection of additional camps, in view of the fact that the original £1,000,000 has now all been arranged to be spent; and how many camps have now been built and are occupied?

Mr. M. MacDonald

Thirty camps have been completed, and the remaining one will be finished in a fortnight. Twenty-three of them are occupied, and all the others will be occupied as soon as the education authorities to whom they have been let have completed their arrangements. The question of extending the scheme will be borne in mind with due regard to the urgency of other national requirements.

Mr. Mander

In view of the great success of these camps and the urgent necessity for having more, could not a decision be come to at an early date?

Mr. MacDonald

It will be come to as soon as we have got the building materials for this purpose.