National Service Hostels Corporation

HC Deb 27 March 1946 vol 421 cc48-9W

136. Mr. Edelman

asked the Minister of Labour whether he will make a statement on the future of the National Service Hostels Corporation, Limited.

Mr. Isaacs:

It has been decided to keep this Corporation in being for a further period of five years with the primary object of providing hostel accommodation for workers transferred away from home for essential work in connection with the reconstruction programme to places where existing lodging facilities are inadequate. The necessary legal steps have been taken to amend the memorandum of association of the Corporation so as to enable it to undertake this function and other services of the kind as necessary, as the agent of the Government Department concerned.