§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Secretary of State for War if he will institute 1893W an inquiry into circumstances affecting the Tile House estate, Guildford, where a private enterprise, which would have provided 1,000 houses in the borough of Guildford with exceptional amenities, has been frustrated by his Department.
§ Sir J. GriggThis site was requisitioned in September, 1939, when the problem of housing the expanding Army was very serious. Moreover, only a few bungalows were then on the site. It has been used for an Army camp and for an A.T.S. centre and it is now a Dispersal Centre. As such it will continue to be used while men are being released under the Release Scheme. No inquiry seems to me to be necessary.
§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Secretary of State for War if he will consider releasing the buildings of a school, details of which have been submitted to him, requisitioned by his Department in 1939, as this school is unable to continue its tenancy of its present quarters to which it was evacuated and is threatened with extinction unless it can return to its own buildings at Broadstairs, where alternative accommodation is available in unoccupied premises.
§ Sir J. GriggThese buildings are at present being used for repatriated prisoners of war, and I regret that until they leave the buildings cannot be released. But they will be released as soon as possible.
§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Secretary of State for War if he is aware of a further encroachment, details of which have been submitted to him, by his Department on the premises of a school whose existence is threatened by its continued inability to occupy its premises; and whether he will inquire into this case and remedy the injustice.
§ Sir J. GriggOwing to a misunderstanding, additional rooms in the school premises were occupied by the unit then in possession. In order to regularise the position the rooms in question were requisitioned to cover the period of occupation and are now being derequisitioned.