Mr. De la Béreasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, in connection with the requisitioning of hotels by the Government, resulting in the billeting of civil servants at the sum of £1 is. per person per week, this sum to include two meals daily, breakfast and one other hot meal, he will take into consideration the increased cost of living since the commencement of the war, and take steps to revise this amount?
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§ Captain CrookshankI am satisfied that the rate which has been fixed for the billeting of civil servants is fair and reasonable.