§ 36. Mr. Kingasked the Minister of Health if he authorised the requisitioning of a house in Wellington-Hill West, in the Henleaze suburb of Bristol, previously occupied by a Mrs. Rosina Ann Cornock.
§ Mr. J. EdwardsThis house was requisitioned by the clerk to the local authority in the exercise of powers which my right hon. Friend has delegated to him.
§ Mr. KingIs the Parliamentary Secretary aware that this woman was on trial for her life and was an expectant mother, with the responsibilities which that entails? Was it not rather hard to take her house away before it was known whether she was innocent or guilty?
§ Mr. EdwardsThe house in question was vacant and unoccupied, and the lady in question had removed her furniture before the requisitioning took place.