HC Deb 30 July 1940 vol 363 c1180W
Mr. Silkin

asked the Minister of Health whether, as air raids have taken place in certain reception areas, he will give consideration to the question of evacuating school children from such areas?

Miss Horsbrugh

The suitability of particular areas is kept under constant consideration, and certain areas which were originally reception areas are no longer regarded as suitable. The purpose of evacuating children is to disperse them as widely as possible in districts which are not densely populated, and they are in general safer in those districts even when there are aid raids. This policy of dispersal cannot prevent the risk to children, but it does minimise it.