Transferred Building Workers (London)

HC Deb 30 May 1945 vol 411 c240W

Mr. G. Strauss

asked the Minister of Works how many building- labourers have been brought into London to work on bomb-damage repair from outside the London region.

Mr. Sandys

About 50,000 building operatives were brought into London for bomb-damage repair. Of these about 17,000 are labourers.