Barracks, Ripon (Sleeping Accommodation)

HC Deb 25 February 1957 vol 565 cc136-7W

111. Mr. Wigg

asked the Secretary of State for War the date on which cubicle sleeping accommodation was introduced at Harper Barracks, Ripon; the number of cubicles eventually provided; the total cost of such provision; and the number of cubicles which now remain.

Mr. J. Amery

Partitioning to form 143 cubicles each to accommodate four or six men was erected in 1948 at a cost of about £8,000. 74 of these remain.