§ Sir G. Foxasked the Lord Privy Seal, how many children, under the original scheme of evacuation, it was proposed to remove from London and billet in the country; how many adults it was similarly proposed to remove; whether these removals were from the administrative county of London only or from Greater London, or from the Metropolitan police district; and what was the estimated weekly cost of all the necessary billeting thereby entailed?
§ Sir J. AndersonThe emergency arrangements were based on an estimate that from the county of London and some of the more congested areas adjacent to the county the number of school children sent out with their school teachers might amount to about half a million and the number of other persons wishing to leave and unable to make their own arrangements might amount to about a million and a-half. If these figures had been realised the gross amount of the billeting payments would have been in 1365W the neighbourhood of £600,000 a week but the net amount would have depended on the amount recovered from those in a position to contribute to the cost.