72. Mr. David Adamsasked the Minister of Health what standards are laid down, in various classes of areas, as to the proportion of the population for whom accommodation in rest and feeding centres should be provided?
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horsbrugh)No general standard has been laid down for the amount of accommodation including feeding facilities to be provided in rest centres. This must depend in each area on a combination of widely varying local conditions and it has been left to each rest centre authority to decide, in consultation with the Department's senior regional officer, what is necessary for their own area. As a rough guide, however, it has been suggested that rest centre accommodation should be provided in target towns and their suburbs for not less than 8 per cent. of the population.