§ Make Nieldasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works the Government's policy in regard to the taking over of furniture, crockery and the like owned by hotel proprietors and others which is not actually in use but is genuinely required as a reserve against damage and breakages?
§ Mr. HicksCertain stocks of furniture not actually in use by hotel proprietors have been requisitioned by my Department for urgent war purposes. I am always prepared to consider sympathetically any representations against taking furniture genuinely required to replace damage and breakages. It is not the practice to requisition crockery. The basis of payment for furniture requisitioned and the arrangements made to enable owners to repurchase similar types of furniture after the war are stated in my reply to the hon. Member for Horncastle (Mr. Haslam) of 18th November last, of which I am sending the hon. and gallant Member a copy.