§ 52. Sir G. Jeffreysasked the Minister of Defence what will be the approximate increases in the acreage proposed to be occupied by Service Departments on Dartmoor and in the Purbeck area, as compared with the acreages in those two areas occupied prior to 1939 by the War Department as artillery ranges and for tank training, respectively.
§ Mr. AlexanderThe total area involved in Service proposals for all purposes on Dartmoor was given in my right hon. friend, the Prime Minister's statement on 25th February. The War Office require some 19,000 acres for an artillery range. This compares with some 8,000 acres immediately before the war expanded to 14,000 acres at an early stage of the war. The area of 6,940 acres at Purbeck, also referred to in the Prime Minister's statement, was not held by the War Office before the war; it is required as a tank range.