§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Prime Minister whether he will now move to set up a Parliamentary Committee, on the lines of the Select Committee on National Expenditure, to which should be referred the requisitioning of premises, now exercised without adequate inquiry or coordination by various authorities, which has given rise to public complaints that these powers are being exercised without due consideration and causing unnecessary hardship; and whether he will delay the execution of the threatened requisitioning of Holloway College by the War Office in order to refer this proposition to such a Committee?
§ The Prime MinisterNo, Sir. I could not adopt this procedure. I have recently drawn the attention of requisitioning departments to the need for care and consideration and for avoiding unnecessary hardship in the exercise of their powers.