§ Mr. Messerasked the Minister of Health why The Beeches, Saffron Walden, which was requisitioned for the military and later released by the War Office for use as a school, has been occupied by a private person; whether he will refuse his sanction to any application for its derequisitioning, which would mean the transfer of the Tottenham high school for 493W girls to a place 100 miles from London; and. whether, in view of the danger that many children will return to London, he will take steps to secure the property for the school?
§ Mr. E. BrownOn the facts before me, it is doubtful whether this house can legally be held to have been under requisition at the date when the person to whom my hon. Friend refers entered into occupation; and in these circumstances the requisitioning has been terminated as from 19th February last. It is, however, understood that the education authority had, for other reasons, come to the conclusion that some alternative arrangement would be preferable and this is now under examination. I will communicate further will my hon. Friend in regard to this.