§ Mr. Higgsasked the Minister of Health whether he is aware that, when children are evacuated from any given area to an adjacent rural district, the frequent visits of the parents to the billets have an unsettling effect upon the children with the result that a high percentage return home; and can he see his way clear, when making future arrangements, to send the children to more remote parts from the evacuated areas in order to obviate this trouble?
Mr. M. MacDonaldI am aware of the difficulty to which my hon. Friend refers, but in order to find room for all the children we have to make full use of all the areas which are suitable for their reception even if some of the reception areas are comparatively close to their home towns. Parents have been publicly asked from time to time not to visit their children too frequently and I hope that they will heed that advice.