§ Sir J. Wardlaw-Milneasked the Minister of Labour why the reception hostel at the Y.M.C.A. in Redditch has been closed and is now standing empty, in view of the fact that a number of A.T.S. are now to be forced into billets under compulsory powers in the town, in which housing conditions are already bad and the lack of accommodation as bad as anywhere in the country.
§ Mr. BevinI think my hon. Friend is under a misapprehension. The Y.M.C.A. hostel in Redditch is still in use for the reception of transferred workers, and there is at present no intention of closing it.