§ 1. Earl Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will circularise chief constables in England and Wales asking them what steps they have taken to call the attention of the authorities to whom they are responsible to the need for houses for all married police officers who are at present without such houses.
§ The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)From my contacts with chief constables individually and collectively, I know them to be fully alive to the need for houses for married officers. The subject has had and will continue to have my close attention. Since the war the number of police houses owned by police authorities has increased by more than 50 per cent., in the main by new construction. New police houses are now being completed at the rate of over 130 a month.